Six reactors of a new type are to be built by the middle of the next decade.
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Paris, Penly In December 2022, Bruno Le Maire stands in front of a mighty blue turbine in the machine hall of the Penly nuclear power plant. The French finance and economy minister has come to find out how the corrosion damage can be repaired.
At this point in time, France was worried about power cuts in winter, both reactor units in Penly are off the grid. It’s quiet in the machine hall, where the turbines otherwise make a deafening noise. For Le Maire, that’s no reason to doubt nuclear power. “Eventually every major industrial nation will return to nuclear energy,” he says. For France and Le Maire, the future of nuclear power starts right here, in Pely. The government has chosen the area as the first site for the EPR 2, a new generation pressurized water reactor. Two of them are scheduled to go into operation here by the middle of the next decade.
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