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Nuclear: an essential debate in the next presidential election

3/23/2021, 8:31:44 PM


While the majority keeps reminding environmentalists that it is at the origin of the effective closure of the Fessenheim plant, François Bayrou suggests not to bury this source of energy too quickly.

By taking up his duties as High Commissioner for Planning, François Bayrou had warned that he would invite himself very freely into all the major current debates.

Even if it means sometimes upsetting the executive's agenda.

After the first rather consensual notes on the management of the Covid-19 epidemic and the future of the debt, the centrist this time puts his feet in the dish.

Does the climate and resilience bill - which will begin in public session next week - not once mention nuclear power?

He makes this subject splitting the red thread of his note "Electricity: the duty of lucidity".

While the majority keeps reminding environmentalists that it is at the origin of the effective closure of the Fessenheim plant, François Bayrou suggests not to bury this source of energy too quickly.

In his eyes, it would not be

“Not realistic”

to imagine a

“100% renewable

energy mix

.

"It is an illusion and a civic lie that would lead us to an industrial accident"

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