Posted on 07/01/2020 5:57:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
France’s oldest nuclear power plant was finally closed on Tuesday (30 June) — after four decades in operation and a long-standing campaign by anti-nuclear activists.
The process to remove the fuel used by the reactors of Fessenheim power plant, which was connected to the grid in 1977, should be completed by 2023 — although the plant is not expected to be fully dismantled before 2040.
Following the disaster of Fukushima in 2011, then French president François Hollande pledged to close Fessenheim power plant, after complaints about safety from both the German and Swiss governments.
However, his successor Emmanuel Macron only finally gave the green light to closure in 2017.
A group of nuclear supporters, meanwhile, demonstrated on Monday against the closure of Fessenheim at the headquarters of Greenpeace in Paris.
According to the French Nuclear Energy Society (SFEN), this shutdown will mean more fossil-fuel-based solutions and additional emissions of around 10 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
However, France also aims to reduce the emissions from its electricity supply by shutting down its last four coal-fired power plants by 2024, and investing in renewable energies.
Without Fessenheim, France will still have a total of 56 pressurized water reactors at 18 nuclear plants. …
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They can use candles and cigarettes to light their homes.
An idiot who married his grandmother should never make policy of any kind. French really are stupid.
Ummm....nuclear plants are clean energy.
Burning automobiles can provide street light.
I think France has the highest percentage of electricity generated from Nuclear in the world...
Until they run out of cars.
Buildings and combustible artwork after no more cars to torch.
Oui!
Macron will see that the opposite occurs.
Their main concern should be the number of Islamic filth in their country.
Back to kerosene lamps and candles folks.
The politicians plan to use their hot air to fuel cities.
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