PARIS (Reuters) – Maintenance work was again disrupted on Wednesday on 17 reactors in 12 nuclear power plants in France due to mobilizations linked to wage demands, we learned from Virginie Neumayer, union representative FNME-CGT ( National Federation of Mines and Energy).
Production was also reduced on three other reactors, said the union representative.
Wage negotiations between EDF management and the unions are due to open on Wednesday, in the wake of the branch agreement on wage increases signed earlier this week by three unions representing the electricity and gas industry sector (IEG ), CGT, FO and CFDT.
“It is important that work can resume as soon as possible because otherwise the risk of not having electricity (this winter) increases”, declared on RMC on Wednesday the president of the Energy Regulation Commission ( CRE), Emmanuelle Wargon.
“We need all these reactors, which are stopped for maintenance, which are stopped to do the work following what is called stress corrosion, we need these reactors to return to production”, she said. added.
RTE, the manager of French high-voltage lines, warned on Tuesday that an extension of the social movement underway in certain nuclear power plants “would have serious consequences on the heart of winter”, EDF having already fallen behind in the work. maintenance of certain reactors because of this social movement.
(Report Forrest Crellin, written by Myriam Rivet, edited by Marc Angrand)
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