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The former president of EDF Marcel Boiteux, champion of “all-nuclear, all-electric”, is dead
Former EDF president Marcel Boiteux (1979-1987), in 1980. GILBERT UZAN / GAMMA-RAPHO / GETTY IMAGES A few rare bosses leave an almost indelible mark on the company they managed, to…
The 1978 blackout, green light for all-nuclear
In a Parisian bistro, on the morning of the breakdown, customers take their coffee by candlelight, on December 19, 1978 in Paris. FRANCOIS LOCHON/GAMMA-RAPHO Forty-four years ago, on December 19,…