Emmanuel Macron unveils his nuclear energy recovery plan: "It's a thoughtful strategy"

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The Bugey nuclear power plant, in Ain (illustration).

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By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow

The Head of State unveils this Thursday, February 10, two months before the presidential election, a vast recovery plan for civil nuclear power in France, with the construction of six to 14 new EPR reactors, and more generally, his energy strategy for 2030 .

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It is an industrial and financial challenge that the president must present, anxious to show that he continues to attach importance to renewable energies, for him complementary to nuclear power.

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, professor emeritus at the University of Montpellier and director of CREDEN, specialist in nuclear economics

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