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The EPR nuclear reactors, “there is not one that works in the world”, assures the Green MEP who recommends investing instead in renewable, “economical” energies, which “create jobs”, which are “rather clean” and “set up very quickly”.
“And why not install EPRs next to Notre-Dame de Paris”quipped Thursday, June 29 on franceinfo the MEP for Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) Yannick Jadot while Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday considered the installation of an EPR nuclear reactor in the Marseille-Fos basin to meet additional energy needs. from the port of the Marseille city.
In February 2022, the Head of State set the objective of building six new next-generation nuclear reactors EPR2, in existing power plants. “There is not one that works in the world, it’s a disaster”, quipped the environmentalist. Yannick Jadot also pointed to the multiple delays concerning the Flamanville EPR, under construction since 2007, whose commissioning is now scheduled for 2024, 12 years late. “The president tells us ‘we are going to put EPRs, we are almost going to put them in town and in 2040-2045 we will start to solve the climate problem’, it is irresponsible”he lambasted. “It’s totally amazing that a president says ‘why not make a nuclear reactor here'”he added.
“Emmanuel Macron does not want to act, he wants to anesthetize us with a technological fantasy of 2045. This strategy is criminal.”
Yannick Jadot, EELV MEPat franceinfo
For the European Green MP, “we must do something else”. “We know that with climate change, it will be more and more difficult to cool our nuclear power plants on the rivers”explained Yannick Jadot, who pleads for investments in renewable energies. “What we are proposing is not to invest in a solution potentially available in 2040-2045 which is very expensive and which today is absolutely unreliable” but accelerating renewable energy “because it’s economical, it creates jobs, it’s rather clean and it sets up very quickly to fight against climate change”.