MPs voted 399-100 on the nuclear revival bill, with the right, far right and communists voting in favour. The technical bill simplifies the process in order to achieve the ambition to build six new EPR reactors and launch studies for eight others.
The energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine has revived nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels, including Russian gas. But twelve years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, French environmentalists admit to having lost ground in their "cultural battle" against the atom.