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Building new EPR would be "completely absurd", said Friday the member of the LREM Somme.
The MPP LREM of the Somme Barbara Pompili on Friday ruled that the construction of new reactors EPR, which is not totally ruled out by the government, "would be absurd" in view of the "commitments" made to reduce the share of electricity from electricity. nuclear origin.
"It would be completely absurd". "It would be absurd in terms of the commitments we made," said the former secretary of state ecologist on Biodiversity on BFMTV. The government plans to decide between 2021 and 2025 whether it will launch the construction of a "series" of EPR reactors, saying that it is first necessary to lower the costs, according to a government working document that was accessed by the government. AFP. "So that's stuff that goes around, that would be completely absurd, we would be in the absurd," commented Barbara Pompili.
"We will already try to make Flamanville's one work". "Today we have commitments in the law to reduce the share of nuclear energy to 50% (…) and increase our share of renewable energy," she said. "After that we will continue or we will stop (nuclear, ed), we are not in this subject," she continued. "If to continue we create new plants, we'll see … Will it be EPR? Listen, we'll already try to run Flamanville, there are only problems with this EPR".
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