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This year, France will close Fassenheim, its oldest nuclear power station

France’s oldest nuke plant ‘to close this year’ , The Local 7 Mar 16, France is to close down its oldest nuclear power plant, at the centre of a row with neighbouring Germany and Switzerland, by the end of this year, a green minister said Sunday.

”The timeline is one the president has repeated to me several times, it’s2016,” said Emmanuelle Cosse, who was named to President Francois Hollande’s cabinet last month, referring to the Fassenheim plant.

Cosse was speaking to French media after a row sparked Friday when Germanydemanded that France close down Fassenheim following reports that a 2014 incident there was worse than earlier portrayed……..

On Sunday, Cosse said that to reach its target, the government would have”to close other nuclear plants, other reactors, obviously, over several years.”

Hollande named Cosse, a member of the French Greens Party (EELV), housingminister as part of a reshuffle seen as a bid to broaden his appeal ahead of a re-election bid next year. http://www.thelocal.fr/20160306/frances-oldest-nuke-plant-to-close-this-year

March 7, 2016 - Posted by | France, politics

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