Fessenheim nuclear power plant. Philipp von Ditfurth/DPA / Picture Alliance via Reuters
GREAT STORY – Decided in the electoral agreement between the socialists and the environmentalists in 2011, the ceiling at 50% of the share of the atom in electricity in France has weighed a sword of Damocles on the sector.
Some cross out, others autopsy. In committee, the deputies who are examining the nuclear acceleration bill voted on Wednesday, like the senators before them, to delete from the law two objectives which had been included in it in 2015: the reduction to 50% of the share of nuclear power in electricity production in France and the capping of installed nuclear power at 63.2 GW. “The sector needs, after years of negative and contradictory signals, a signal of confidence”justified the Renaissance rapporteur of the text, Maud Bregeon.
In another room of the Palais Bourbon, since the fall, as part of a commission of inquiry into “the reasons for the loss of energy sovereignty” of France, other deputies have been chaining the interrogations of the ban and the backbench of the country’s energy policy for twenty years. Irony of careers: many of those in charge today and president of the nuclear revival have their…
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