“We cannot give up nuclear power” overnight “, assures Jean-Louis Étienne

“Nuclear power is badly born”, regretted the doctor-explorer Jean-Louis Étienne, Monday, November 1 on franceinfo. “We made a bomb of it when it was a product that could help us. It is a pure product of human intelligence”, he continued. According to him, “You can’t just write it off like that overnight.”

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“Emmanuel Macron is right when he says that we cannot do without nuclear if we really want to stop CO2 emissions, estimated Jean-Louis Étienne. He has the audacity to announce to a nation, which is strongly against nuclear power when it has access to 70% of it for its electricity, that we must come to our senses, we cannot live in a permanent utopia . “

“There is a considerable delay in nuclear research”, he regretted. According to him, “innovation is a solution”, in particular thanks to EPR-type plants. “The solution is behavioral and technological”, he insisted. Behavioral, because “we are all actors of global warming”. Technological, because “we must limit combustion.”

Jean-Louis Étienne, however, said he was optimistic about the challenges of global warming, which will be discussed this Monday at COP26, the Climate Summit, which is being held in Glasgow, Scotland. “We have to believe it, global warming is a chronic fever, we need emergency treatment, we must not give up. We must accelerate the energy transition and limit greenhouse gas emissions”, he continued. According to him, the COP26 “is not the last chance but it must be the one of acceleration.”