It took the President of the Republic three speeches, more than a year apart, to assume a frank revival of nuclear power in France.
Emmanuel Macron is due to announce Thursday, in Belfort, on the manufacturing site of the emblematic Arabelle nuclear turbines, the launch of a construction program for six EPR reactors, and an option on, probably, eight others.
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It was in Le Creusot, on the historic site of manufacture of the large forged parts of the Framatome power plants, that Emmanuel Macron took a first step towards the revival of the civil atom, on December 8, 2020.
“Our energy and ecological future goes through nuclear
,” he said.
The sector then had to wait a year to receive presidential confirmation.
“For the first time in decades, we are going to relaunch the construction of nuclear reactors in our country and continue to develop renewable energies”
, he added on November 8, 2021, at the turn of a speech around…
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