Since Emmanuel Macron announced in mid-November that he intended to "relaunch the construction of nuclear reactors" in France and "continue to develop renewable energies", while postponing the details of these future EPRs, political reactions have not continued. not kept waiting.

In particular of the candidate of the National Assembly for the presidential election of April 2022, Marine Le Pen.

The latter, which calls for a moratorium on the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant, wishes to reopen the plant if it was elected.

This Thursday, government spokesman Gabriel Attal replied "no", while confirming that Emmanuel Macron would specify "in the coming weeks" France's investments in this sector. "Investing in nuclear power cannot be done without a compass or without looking at the way it is done", argued Gabriel Attal on LCI. “Fessenheim is a second generation power plant, it is the oldest power plants in France, there were prohibitive costs to renew Fessenheim, and it is on the largest water table in Europe. So in terms of responsibility, we made this choice to close Fessenheim, ”he argued.

One year after the shutdown of the power plant's reactors, EDF technicians are preparing the dismantling of the site, which is to begin in 2025, in accordance with François Hollande's decision confirmed by Emmanuel Macron.

"On the other hand, that does not prevent us from continuing to invest in nuclear power", and "the president will speak (...), in the coming weeks, to say the way in which nuclear power will develop in our country", specified the spokesperson.

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