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Emmanuel Macron chooses to display himself as a defender of nuclear power

2021-10-18T18:34:08.496Z


ANALYSIS - The Head of State wants to announce before Christmas the construction of six new EPR reactors and relaunch the debate on the energy mix.


Focus on nuclear.

The concessions to environmentalists at the start of his mandate have lived, Emmanuel Macron is fully committed to the development of the atomic sector.

After announcing investments for 1 billion euros in small nuclear reactors (SMR) last week, the head of state is looking for the right time to announce the construction of six new EPRs.

It will be formalized before the Christmas holidays.

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Emmanuel Macron hesitated to include this announcement in the presentation of the France 2030 plan. But in order not to dilute the impact, and to pace the rise of his nuclear strategy against the backdrop of the presidential campaign, he finally chose to devote a sequence specific to EPRs, following on from the report to be submitted to it by RTE on October 25th.

Emmanuel Macron had already mentioned the idea of ​​building new ones.

It was in November 2018 in his speech on multi-year energy programming.

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Source: lefigaro

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