French utility EDF is eyeing expanding all 19 of its French nuclear power plant sites, potentially through the acquisition of up to several hundred hectares, it told Montel, a plan attacked by anti-nuclear campaigners. The firm could use the land to build new reactors, boost renewables capacity or for nuclear waste in the case of decommissioning, it said. Anti-nuclear campaigners such as Joël Guéry from the Stop Bugey group feared the acquisition of land could be due to plans to replace the 14 reactors that president Emmanuel Macron had pledged to axe by 2035 with the controversial new generation European pressurised reactors (EPRs).
Montel 15th Jan 2019 read more »
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