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Nuclear recovery plan: “It was about time!”

2022-02-09T20:22:33.725Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Gaëtan de Capèle. It was a long and tortuous journey, but here we are: Emmanuel Macron finally unveils, two months from the end of his mandate, a French nuclear recovery plan. It was time. For about ten years and the disastrous promise of its predecessor, for strict political reasons, to reduce without the slightest safeguard the share of the atom in our energy production, France has found a way to place itself in


It was a long and tortuous journey, but here we are: Emmanuel Macron finally unveils, two months from the end of his mandate, a French nuclear recovery plan.

It was time.

For about ten years and the disastrous promise of its predecessor, for strict political reasons, to reduce without the slightest safeguard the share of the atom in our energy production, France has found a way to place itself in an incredible situation of vulnerability.

To govern, they say, is to foresee.

However, to regain our senses, it took the advent of a large-scale energy crisis, a surge in electricity prices and the anger of public opinion, now won over to nuclear power.

The simple observation of the German experiment, which decided to close its reactors the day after Fukushima,

should have been enough to open your eyes.

Having become the biggest polluters in Europe, our neighbors across the Rhine are suffering exorbitant price increases and find themselves…

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Source: lefigaro

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