THE QUESTION
. France's major energy choices are making headlines in the presidential campaign. Pro and anti-nuclear are opposed on the relaunch of a new program for the construction of new generation EPR-type plants. A candidate proposes to go further. “
I am building six EPRs and reopening Fessenheim,
” the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, repeated in recent days. The two Fessenheim reactors stopped producing electricity in February for the first, and in June for the second. Aware that the dismantling project has already started, she asks Emmanuel Macron for a "
moratorium
".
“Because in March 2022, this dismantling will reach a point of no return,a point where Fessenheim will never be able to reopen
, she explained
.
I therefore ask him, given the luck of the hypothesis of his defeat, a moratorium to leave his possible successor, the freedom to reverse.
"
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Anti-wind activists are also calling for the plant to be restarted.
On Thursday, government spokesman Gabriel Attal rejected Marine Le Pen's request.
“Fessenheim is a second generation power station, they are the oldest power stations in France, there were prohibitive costs to renew Fessenheim, and it is on the largest water table in Europe.
So in terms of responsibility, we made this choice to close Fessenheim, ”
he argued.
A few months after the cessation of activity, is it however technically possible, as the candidate wants, to establish a moratorium and then reopen the Alsatian power station?
CHECKS
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The decision to close Fessenheim dragged on.
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