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As Emmanuel Macron continues to reaffirm his commitment to the atom, Yannick Jadot, Marine Tondelier, Eric Piolle and Sandra Regol call on France not to fall back into a costly and dangerous dependence on this energy.
At the end of 2023, President Macron reaffirmed his commitment to restarting nuclear power, first in a forum and then in his wishes to the French. He who in 2017 questioned the wisdom of three-quarters dependence on a single source of electricity generation has now transformed into a representative of the nuclear industry. In Dubai, he was busy working to triple global production by 2050 and actively pushed for nuclear energy to be included in the final COP-28 agreement.
In Brussels, the French government pushed for the integration of nuclear energy into the European Union's decarbonization strategy, receiving particular support for the development of small nuclear reactors. The restart of nuclear energy began with a cultural struggle that was reflected in the systematization of the use of the term “decarbonized” in both speeches and energy law. To put renewable and nuclear energies on an equal footing, nuclear advocates are committed to decarbonization while neglecting other planetary boundaries.
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