France will build new nuclear reactors to reduce dependence on foreign energy, meet global warming targets and keep prices in check, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday.
At the beginning of his term, Macron pledged to reduce the contribution of nuclear energy to France’s energy matrix to 50% from 75% in 2035. But the crisis in the sector has turned the mood in Paris, just five months away. of the presidential elections.
“We are going, for the first time in decades, to relaunch the construction of nuclear reactors and to continue developing renewable energies,” Macron said in a televised speech.
The president said the move is necessary to keep energy prices “reasonable.”
At a time when Europe is facing a sharp increase in energy pricesFrance is taking a different path than its German neighbors.
Germany responded to the nuclear catastrophe of Fukushima in Japan in 2011 accelerating its national plan to exit the reactors.
Macron did not provide details, but his government is expected to announce the construction of up to six new pressurized water reactors in the coming weeks.
French media reported in October that the impact of the gas crisis in Europe on energy prices and the knock-on effect on household purchasing power six months before the next presidential elections in France, had accelerated Paris’s decision to go for third-generation pressurized European reactor technology.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx