• Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday the construction of six EPRs by 2050 and the extension of the life of nuclear reactors in operation "beyond 50 years".

    All this less than two years after the shutdown of the Fessenheim plant in Alsace.

  • Precisely, what inspired these presidential announcements in the Haut-Rhin?

    “There is more than bitterness, there is anger, a big anger”, launches the mayor of Fessenheim.

  • What if a nuclear power plant was built again in Alsace?

    The president of the European Community of Alsace, Frédéric Bierry, said he was in favor of it…

Construction of six EPRs by 2050, extension of the service life of reactors in operation "beyond 50 years"... Emmanuel Macron's announcements in Belfort on "the future French nuclear program" did not only happy ones.

Claude Brender, mayor of Fessenheim (Haut-Rhin), cannot digest that the President of the Republic did not have a single word about the Alsatian power plant, which was definitively disconnected in 2020.

The chosen one does not mince his words as the disappointment is strong: “There is more than bitterness, there is anger, a big anger.

“Even if he could suspect it:” An adviser to Bruno Le Maire (Minister of Economy and Finance) called me before to tell me that there would be nothing on Fessenheim.

But you never know before a speech…”

“We are the turkeys of the farce”

The city councilor hoped that the question of “SMR (small modular reactors)” would be addressed.

It has not happened.

"It's a missed opportunity, once again," indignant Claude Brender.

“It's still crazy that 90 kilometers from home, he doesn't have a single word on Fessenheim!

There is a form of contempt.

We are really the sacrificed, the turkeys of the farce.

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Anne Laszlo, elected to the CSE of the Fessenheim plant, says she “understands” the reaction of Claude Brender: “The employees who leave here, they will not come back.

"For her, Emmanuel Macron's announcements leave her with" a bittersweet feeling ": "It sure hurts the heart to see that Fessenheim will no longer be among the power plants that produce.

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“A completely ridiculous technological choice”

On the other hand, the federal Europe and International delegate of CFE Energies expresses her "great pride": "The employees of Fessenheim, who have always been there before, during and after the closure, have participated in the revival of this industry in France.

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The president of Stop Fessenheim, André Hatz, believes that the statements of the Head of State are "terribly serious".

But not for the same reasons: “This reversal on the extension of reactors in operation is a major imbecility!

The reactors are planned for thirty years, forty years maximum.

Extending them to fifty years is irresponsible!

We have just made a completely ridiculous technological choice.

“As for the fate of Fessenheim, he declared himself” sure of nothing “: “The six new EPRs, where is he going to put them?

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Why not in Alsace… From November and the first steps of the President of the Republic towards the return of nuclear power, Frédéric Bierry jumped at the chance.

The president of the European Community of Alsace (CEA) then called for the return of a power station in the region.

“I don't know if our facilities in Fessenheim are today adaptable to a new generation of nuclear power, but I hope that the CEA and the other players concerned will quickly find themselves around the table to study the question.

I am open to any discussion with the government to lead a reflection on a possible establishment in Alsace.

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