Green Light For French Nuclear Reactor In Normandy

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Computer designed picture of the planned European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR).

by Staff Writers
Paris (AFP) Mar 06, 2007
France's nuclear safety commission gave a green light Tuesday for the construction of a 3.3-billion euro (4.3-billion dollar) nuclear reactor in Normandy near the English Channel. Commission president Andre-Claude Lacoste told journalists he had forwarded "a favourable recommendation" on the 1600-megawatt reactor to relevant ministers.

Construction of the so-called "third-generation" European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR), located near the town of Flamanville, is slated to begin by the end of the year.

France derives around three-quarters of its electricity from nuclear power, the highest ratio of any country in the world, and many of its reactors are approaching obsolescence.

Opponents of nuclear energy, including several minor presidential candidates, have called for protest rallies to be held in five French cities on March 17.

Lacoste said that the Flamanville reactor has "been the object of a much broader and deeper evaluation that other French electricity-generation nuclear plants at the safety report stage."

The EPR design was developed in the 1990s by Germany's Siemens and France's Framatome-ANP, which is part of the state-owned nuclear energy group Areva.

It reportedly uses 17 percent less fuel than the types of reactor currently operating in France, and is designed to generate power for 60 years.

The 58 reactors currently in service -- built under a vast programme launched 30 years ago during the first oil crisis -- will begin to age out of operation beginning in 2015.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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EU Split On Renewable Energy Targets

Brussels (AFP) March 05, 2007
European Union countries were divided Monday over how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and what role nuclear energy could play in the fight against climate change. With global warming a high priority, the EU states agree that carbon dioxide emissions must be cut by 20 percent by 2020, compared to 1990 levels, but they disagree on how much renewable and nuclear energy should be used in the future.

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