Nuclear is back at the heart of the energy strategy
“It will not be a cakewalk,” said Agnès Pannier-Runacher (here in the Assembly in December), who fears that the debate, this Monday, will give way to a platform invested by the pro-nuclear against the anti-nuclear. /Amaury Cornu/Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect
While France is hit by the rise in energy prices, the text on the revival of nuclear power, neglected since the five-year term of François Hollande, arrives this Monday at the Assembly.
While The national assembly adopted the bill on renewable energies (ENR) last February, making way for Act II. After a passage in first reading in the Senate, then an adoption in committee, the bill aiming to promote the revival of nuclear power arrives this Monday in the Hemicycle. A text which comes to materialize the declarations of Emmanuel Macron during his speech in Belfort, a year ago: the President of the Republic then announced the construction of six new EPR 2 reactors. The bill provides in particular for a simplification of administrative procedures in order to speed up the construction of nuclear power plants.
A few weeks ago, to pass its ENR bill, the government turned to the left of the Hemicycle. For this text, the political equation is quite different. This time, Agnes Pannier-Runacher should be able to count on the favorable vote of the right-wing oppositions. “I exchanged with all the groups of the arc…
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