President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday evening that he would announce “from the summer the main axes for the next eight” EPR, as part of the relaunch of nuclear power, after the launch of six new EPR reactors, during a conference Press.
I announced the sites of the six new reactors, the work, the investments and all the work begins EDF. From the summer, I will announce the main axes for the next eight, he declared.
We are doing the same on renewables with our strategy to deploy offshore wind power, etc. It’s implementation (…) The results of the last six years are good, he said, affirming that France was one of the countries in Europe with the most carbon-free energy thanks to nuclear power. .
Since the Belfort speech of February 2022, in which Emmanuel Macron noted the relaunch of nuclear power, the government has carried out a program of six new EPR reactors and eight as options. The Head of State had already opened the door in December to an announcement on these eight additional reactors in the coming months.
At the beginning of January, Agns Pannier-Runacher, then Minister of Energy Transition, estimated that France should go beyond the first six EPRs since the historic park will not be eternal, in an interview with Tribune Dimanche.
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