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Emmanuel Macron convenes a nuclear council on Friday to establish his roadmap

The head of state will convene a “presidential council on nuclear policy” on Friday to “define a road map that will go from fuel supply to waste treatment.”

Emmanuel Macron will convene a “presidential council on nuclear policy” on Friday to set his roadmap to accelerate the reactivation of the sector, we learned this Monday from the Élysée. This meeting at the Élysée with the interested ministers in particular will take place one year after the speech of the Head of State in Belfort: on February 10, 2022 he had defined his energy policy with a broad recovery plan for civil nuclear energy, the development of renewable energies, in particular offshore wind, and greater sobriety.

“One year later, the homework is done,” they said around them, referring to the results of the government’s sobriety plan, the approval in progress in Parliament of the bill to develop renewable energy, and the vote in the Senate. , in first reading, of a text to speed up the construction of new reactors.

Friday’s council “will now define a roadmap that will go from fuel supply to waste treatment,” explained the Élysée. It will also try to set a schedule for the construction of six new reactors and small reactors of the SMR type, but also for the expansion of existing reactors.

“Things Are Moving”

This meeting will follow the first green planning council organized last week by the president. At the end of it, Emmanuel Macron stated that France had to “double” its “effort rate” to reduce its carbon emissions if it wants to meet its targets by 2030.

“For the president, it is important to demonstrate that in these big planning issues, things move and that actions follow promises,” we begged in his entourage, while the head of state’s environmental report is often criticized by non-governmental organizations. organizations

Author: LP with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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