The French Parliament supported Macron’s plan to build new nuclear power plants
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The French Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of the government’s investment plan in nuclear energy.
This is reported by “European Truth” with reference to Reuters.
The nuclear energy renewal plan, the key point of which is the planned construction of six new nuclear reactors, was approved by 402 votes to 130.
“Following the Senate last month, the House of Commons tonight overwhelmingly voted in favor of the nuclear plan…the result of working together to tackle climate change and guarantee our energy sovereignty,” Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne tweeted.
President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to regain the initiative with new reforms in the coming weeks after his government was threatened with resignation over a pension reform plan, with nuclear power one of the issues on which his centrist party is at odds with the conservative “Republicans” and the ultra-right “National Association”.
Macron aims to start building the first new-generation nuclear reactor, the EPR2, by the end of his second five-year term in May 2027 as part of a €52bn plan to build six new reactors.
The plan comes as France has suffered months of severe outages at its existing fleet of 56 reactors, resulting in a 30-year low in nuclear power output, and the first-generation EPR reactor under construction in western France is years behind schedule and over a budget of billions of euros.
It will be recalled that 11 European countries have committed themselves cooperate more closely throughout the nuclear energy supply chain and promote joint industrial projects in the field of new generation capacity as well as new technologies such as small reactors.
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