Shutting down France's oldest nuclear plant, in Fessenheim near the border with Germany, as pledged by the Socialist candidate in the presidential election Francois Hollande, "will take some time," one of Hollande's advisers said in an interview with French business daily Les Echos released Monday.
Shutting down France's oldest nuclear plant, in Fessenheim near the
border with Germany, as pledged by the Socialist candidate in the presidential
election Francois Hollande, "will take some time," one of Hollande's
advisers said in an interview with French business daily Les Echos released
Monday.
The promise to shut down Fessenheim is central to Hollande's energy plans and
is part of a pact the Socialist made with the environmental party. According to
the pact, Hollande also pledged to lower the share of nuclear in
France
's
energy mix to 50% from around 75% currently by 2025-30, a decision that would
actually represent shutting down 24 reactors over the period.
Shutting down Fessenheim would happen during Hollande's five-year mandate, his
adviser Francois Brottes is quoted as saying, yet not at the start, as "it
takes some time."
As for the other reactors that would need to be shut down according to the
pact, Brottes didn't elaborate, insisting that Fessenheim must be closed down
first.
France
is
the world's second largest nuclear operator after the
U.S.
, with
58 reactors currently running and a 59th--a third-generation safety-enhanced
Evolutionary Pressurized Reactor --being built. Yet the heavy reliance of the
country on nuclear was called into question after the
Fukushima
nuclear catastrophe a year ago and has become a major theme in the electoral
campaign ahead of the presidential vote in April and May.
Unlike the environmentalists, the Socialists plan to let the EPR start production.
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