Nuclear energy has been at the heart of the presidential campaign, while Emmanuel Macron intends to relaunch the construction of reactors, in the midst of COP26.
Marine Le Pen took up this subject on Monday.
"I solemnly ask this (Monday) morning to the President of the Republic for a moratorium on the dismantling of Fessenheim because in March 2022 the dismantling will reach a point of no return, that is to say at a point where we will never be able to reopen Fessenheim ”, declared on franceinfo the deputy RN of Pas-de-Calais, who wants to build six EPR and reopen Fessenheim.
"I therefore ask him, given the hypothesis of his defeat [in the presidential election of spring 2022], which he must take into account, a moratorium on the dismantling of Fessenheim (Haut-Rhin) to leave his possible successor free. to go back and be able to reopen Fessenheim, ”she added.
Reactors shut down for a year
One year after the shutdown of the reactors in Fessenheim, EDF technicians are preparing the dismantling of the site which is to begin in 2025, in accordance with François Hollande's decision confirmed by Emmanuel Macron.
Commissioned in 1977, the power station located in the Haut-Rhin is the first to be shut down as part of the multi-year energy program which aims to reduce the share of nuclear energy in the French electricity mix.
According to the president of the RN, "Emmanuel Macron's conversion (to nuclear) is recent" and "he made an absolutely major mistake in closing Fessenheim".
Investments for small reactors
"Nuclear power is safe, abundant, cheap, clean, which we control and which is the most carbon-free energy there is, it is an incredible opportunity that General de Gaulle bequeathed to us, so we obviously have to to use this advantage, not to abandon it, not to weaken it, on the contrary to develop it "to" continue in addition to be independent of energy imports ", judged the candidate of the National Assembly.
Tuesday evening, the Head of State announced that he intended to "relaunch the construction of nuclear reactors in our country and continue to develop renewable energies", without specifying whether they were new EPRs.
He had already announced one billion euros of investments in nuclear energy by 2030, in particular for small reactors known as SMR (“Small Modular Reactors”).
