Correspondent in Asia
On the edge of the prosperous Pearl River Delta, this concrete juggernaut symbolizes China's determined belief in the atom.
Inaugurated with fanfare in 2018, in the vicinity of Macao and Hong Kong, on the coast of the southern province of Guangdong, the Taishan EPR, developed in a joint venture with EDF (30%), marks Beijing's desire to become a world leader in nuclear power, at a time when most nations were turning their backs on it, in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
By becoming the first third-generation reactors in operation in the world, Taishan 1 and its little brother Taishan 2, inaugurated in 2019, are grilling politeness to their cousins still under construction in France, Finland or the United Kingdom.
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Officials from the Party and the state-owned China Nuclear Power Group (CGN) had initially put forward the foolproof safety of this new technology to impose this strategic project on a suspicious southern population.
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