Platt Nucleonics July 2 2024
Platt Nucleonics July 2 2024
French nuclear program likely to remain on course despite turbulent election ..
“How this [construction] program would be funded is unknown,” Denis Florin, the founder of the Paris-based energy consultancy, Lavoisier Conseil, added in a July 1 interview.…… cheap electricity will also help tie the party to a new reactor construction program, Florin added. “Most French people associate cheap electricity with nuclear power,” Florin explained. ……
Florin says left-wing opposition to nuclear power is likely to be more muted than might be expected……. “The ecologists have lost a lot of influence on the left. They will make a lot of noise [about nuclear energy] but I do not expect this to amount to much more,” he added. Strong trade union backing for nuclear construction ... push left-wing parties into a more supportive position on nuclear power, according to Florin. “I expect nuclear to be a secondary issue [for the left].
French nuclear program likely to remain on course
despite turbulent election ..
The plan promised to build 10 EPR reactors by 2035 and 10 EPR2 reactors between 2036 and 2040.
“That construction program is totally unrealistic,” the emeritus professor at the University of Montpellier and founder of the Energy Economics Institute, or Creden, Jacques Percebois, said in a July 1 interview……
“How this [construction] program would be funded is unknown,” Denis Florin, the founder of the Paris-based energy
consultancy, Lavoisier Conseil, added in a July 1 interview.……The election campaign promise of RN’s party’s prime ministerial candidate, Jordan Bardella, of cheap electricity will also help tie the party to a new reactor construction program, Florin added. “Most French people associate cheap electricity with nuclear power,” Florin explained. ……
Florin says left-wing opposition to nuclear power is likely to be more muted than might be expected……. One major factor is that Green or ecological candidates often did not perform well in the first round vote. “The ecologists have lost a lot of influence on the left. They will make a lot of noise [about nuclear energy] but I do not expect this to amount to much more,” he added. Strong trade union backing for nuclear construction programs is another factor likely to push left-wing parties into a more supportive position on nuclear power, according to Florin. “I expect nuclear to be a secondary issue [for the left]. Their main political battles are elsewhere,” he said. Percebois said a likely post election alliance between some members of the moderate right Republican Party, center parties and some on the left will continue with the six-reactor EPR2 program.