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"Nuclear, the principle of reality"

2021-03-10T20:10:58.427Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Gaëtan de Capèle. Should nuclear power be wiped off the world map? Environmentalists have dreamed of it since the Fukushima disaster. This event, born of a tsunami and not of a failure of the Japanese power plant, marked a turning point in the war between anti and pro-atom. Germany's radical choice to give it up almost overnight galvanized green prosecutors. With us, the promise to close Fessenheim, torn from Franç


Should nuclear power be wiped off the world map?

Environmentalists have dreamed of it since the Fukushima disaster.

This event, born of a tsunami and not of a failure of the Japanese power plant, marked a turning point in the war between anti and pro-atom.

Germany's radical choice to give it up almost overnight galvanized green prosecutors.

With us, the promise to close Fessenheim, torn from François Hollande and executed by Emmanuel Macron, gives them wings to demand a definitive exit from nuclear power.

This ideological obsession does not stand up well to the principle of reality.

Global warming, people are worried, threatens the future of the planet.

In fact, nuclear energy, whose safety criteria have been raised to unprecedented levels, emits almost no CO2, which means that we are among the best students.

Celebrated for having decided to do without it, Germany, which heats and lights up with coal and gas power stations, pollutes

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Source: lefigaro

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