Competition from renewables, risk management, end of life of reactors … The nuclear industry is in difficulty on all fronts. What future for French nuclear power? “I was elected on a 50% discount from him and I will keep this commitment”said Emmanuel Macron on November 27, presenting the new multiannual energy program (EPP). To achieve this goal – which is now 2035 – the government plans to close fourteen 900 megawatt reactors: Fessenheim in 2020, the rest spread over 2025-2035. Given the evolution of electricity needs, such a scenario, if realized, would lead to very high production surpluses. Especially if the executive decided in bonus to start the construction of new reactors EPR, a choice he wants to stop in 2021 or 2022, in a context where renewable sources have become very competitive. Such a surplus could drive down electricity prices,
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