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France’s far-right Marine Le Pen has pro nuclear, anti-renewables policy for the coming election.

Le Pen’s climate programme: pro-nuclear and pro-hydrogen, but anti-wind

By Nelly Moussu | EURACTIV France | translated by Daniel Eck, 27 Jan 22,

Three months before the French presidential election, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National presented its ‘economically viable’ climate policy project, which aims to be pro-nuclear and pro-hydrogen, but anti-wind. EURACTIV France reports.

Le Pen’s spokesperson, MEP Nicolas Bay, presented Le Pen’s climate and energy programme on Tuesday (25 January), insisting on the idea of “a model that is authentically ecological but economically viable”………….

Building six EPR reactors

On nuclear power, Le Pen plans to build six new European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) and increase the life span of existing plants. EPR is a third-generation pressurised water reactor design………….  https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/le-pens-climate-programme-pro-nuclear-and-pro-hydrogen-but-anti-wind/

January 29, 2022 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | France, politics