The French electrician Edf confirmed his project on Wednesday to create a nuclear pipe factory at the end of “2028” in Cordmais (Loira-Atlantique), after the closing of the last two units of its coal energy plant. Framatome, a subsidiary of the EDF group specialized in nuclear equipment, has started “studies with a view to the construction of the construction of a nuclear pipe factory”, which “will eventually use up to 200 employees”, according to the group’s press release.
The decision to create this factory follows the announcement of EDF in September 2024 of the abandonment of the Ecocombust project that aimed to convert the central to biomass, “the technical and economic conditions to carry out the Ecocombust project that is not combined.”
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The thermal energy plant of Cordmais, the only one that remains in France with that of Saint-Avold (Moselle), will convert the coal page of March 31, 2027 with the closure of the last two units, 4 and 5. EDF emphasizes that “ends its production of electricity from France according to the provisions provided by the Law of Climatist Energy” of 2019, which is in which the 2019 of the Global of 2019, the one that has the objective of the objectives of the global of the global of the globation of the globation of the globation of the globation of the globation of the globation of the globation of the globation of the globation of the global globation of the global. heating.
The EDF group ensures that “it will lead this closure with the responsibility with its employees who accompany themselves individually to build the rest of their professional career.” The Union of the Federation of the Energy Branch, the FNME-CGT, however, denounced on Wednesday “an irresponsible choice, a total contempt for the territories and the workers.”
The CGT also criticizes EDF’s decision to “deprive itself of a strategic pilotable production tool, challenging supply security needs”, believing that “the great west, already particularly vulnerable, with a sad record of energy cuts, would see that its situation would deteriorate even more.”
Source: BFM TV
