PARIS (Agefi-Dow Jones)–The French state could support the construction of more EPR-type nuclear reactors than the six currently proposed by EDF, the newspaper Les Echos reported on Wednesday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, “will confirm the construction of EPR and could go beyond six” on Thursday, according to the source quoted by Les Echos. These housing starts must be announced both for the short term and for the medium-long term, adds the daily.
Emmanuel Macron is going to Belfort on Thursday for a trip devoted to French energy strategy. He should speak on this occasion on the revival of nuclear power, as well as on the development of renewable energies in the country.
The Head of State could thus present a nuclear trajectory similar to the scenarios drawn up by the operator of the electricity network RTE, which recently estimated that France would need at least 14 new EPRs to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050, explain Les Echoes.
As part of the relaunch of the construction of nuclear reactors in France announced by Emmanuel Macron in November, EDF proposes to initially build six new EPRs, a project estimated at more than 50 billion euros which could start towards the end. of the decade.
-Alice Doré, Agefi-Dow Jones; +33 (0)1 41 27 47 90; [email protected] ed: VLV
Website: http://www.leschos.fr/industrie-services/energie-environnement/.
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February 09, 2022 07:53 ET (12:53 GMT)