With the early shutdown of the two nuclear reactors at Fessenheim, 1,800 megawatts of decarbonized electricity have been removed from the grid. We cannot say this absurd enough. That France decides to reduce the share of nuclear energy in the energy mix is understandable. But should we go faster than music? Wouldn't it be wiser to operate the widely amortized reactors for as long as possible? Recall that this decision to reduce the share of nuclear is the result of a negotiation that dates back to 2011 between the presidential candidate François Hollande and the Greens. The energy strategy is decidedly due to little…
The subject is in any case so sensitive that President Emmanuel Macron took it over and pushed Fessenheim, still in the prime of life, to lower the curtain for good, even before waiting for the implementation route of the Flamanville EPR as planned. In reality, nothing has gone as planned in energy matters since
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