> A bill to speed up the construction of new nuclear reactors was approved by the French parliament on Tuesday (16 May), with the government hailing it as an environmental step forward.
Lawmakers on Tuesday validated the bill to accelerate the construction of new nuclear reactors. The compromise text struck between the National Assembly and the Senate was voted by 339 votes to 100.
MPs from the majority (Renaissance, Horizons, Modem), the independents (LIOT), the right (Les Républicains) and the extreme right (Rassemblement national) voted in favour of the text, in addition to a dozen communist MPs.
Among the opponents, the Greens, the radical left (La France insoumise) and a handful of Communists voted “against” while the Socialists abstained.
Once it comes into force, the new law will speed up the construction of new nuclear reactors by simplifying the required administrative procedures and planning documents. The Energy Transition Ministry expects future construction times to be reduced by at least two years.
In addition, a 50% cap on nuclear power’s share of France’s electricity mix was removed. The text also provides for tightening the penalties for those who illegally enter a nuclear power plant, now set at a maximum of two years imprisonment.
This text is part of the government’s strategy to facilitate the development of renewable energies and nuclear power to achieve the energy transition.
Environmental NGOs denounced “a law that is disconnected from ecological and climatic imperatives”. Greenpeace, in particular, questioned “the slowness of the construction of nuclear reactors”, as well as “the safety” and “the conflicts of water use” that are to be expected.
Energy Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher assured left-wing MPs who opposed the text that “voting against renewable energy and nuclear power is voting for fossil fuels. It is a vote for global warming.”
The first construction is expected to begin in 2027. The same day, on Tuesday morning, 16 European states participated in the “nuclear alliance” to prepare a roadmap for developing an integrated European nuclear industry to reach 150 GW of nuclear in the EU electricity mix by 2050.
(Davide Basso | EURACTIV.fr)
Man, fuck Greenpeace.
greenpeace bitching about one of the greenest country of europe while endorsing green washing country that support gas and coal is funny, those propagandist “ONG” should be banned
Germans in PLS.
Lets see if they can follow through it and not repeat the Flamanville 3 disaster. What we don’t need are newly build NPPs that get delayed for at least a decade. If France is really into going nuclear they should speed up building reactors. Otherwise they will sit on old ass reactors that get more and more maintenance heavy with time and what happeened last year with french nuclear might become regular occurance.
So France. Follow through it. Build those new NPPs, don’t delay them and replace your old ones with the newly build. Don’t half ass it by setting the goal to 2050 and don’t rest on your nuclear laurels like you did for more than 20 years.
Definitely a France W
France should charge people and their organisation infiltrating Nuclear plants as terrorists. Their actions are literally endangering the safety of thousands of people.
Or do the American way, post retired snipers at the perimeter with a zero tolerance policy.
Meanwhile, the Flamanville 3 reactor is *still* not finished.
>The first construction is expected to begin in 2027
Ok, so we have to wait 4 years until the contruction starts, which takes another 10 – 15 years.
lol
Again: Germany is going to build 10 GW of solar this year alone. Ignoring wind power.
**Edit:** Why are people downvoting simple facts? It’s a fact that construction starts in 4 years (it’s in the article), it takes 10 years minimum to finish a nuclear power plant (Flamanville 3 takes 17 years so far and the still isn’t commissioned) and Germany is going to build 10 GW of solar this year.
Nuclear power is an old technology, which is too expensive (to build and to run them), too dangerous (cause of accidents and nuclear waste) and makes us dependent on other countries (cause of Uranium). Only the industry and lobbyist like Nuclear power, because they can get billions from us tax payers. Everyone nows that nothing is cheaper and better for normal people than wind and solar power. Don’t let them fool you. The nuclear power lobbyists try everything to change your minds.
I mean they have to. They saw a bigger nuclear output reduction than Germany in the last 20 years but they failed to build up alternatives in the same time unlike Germany
Construction will now be 15 years instead of 17. How do you say Frankreichgeschwindigkeit in French?
Exquisite occasion for Framatome/EDF to get those great mafia practices that were used during the building of the Finish Olkiluoto plant from under the dust:
The construction workforce of the Finish Olkiluoto plant included about 3,800 employees from 500 companies. 80% of the workers being foreigners, mostly from eastern European countries. In 2012 it was reported that one Bulgarian contracting firm is owned by the mafia, and that Bulgarian workers have been required to pay weekly protection fees to the mafia, wages have been unpaid, employees have been told not to join a union and that employers also reneged on social security payments.
And when the NPP are finished, they can’t be operated because France don’t have enough water for cooling them.
There are so many points speaking against nuclear (and in favour of Renewables) but in my eyes the most blatantly obvious point is the sheer amount of cooling water needed to operate the reactors in the face of a time where water becomes scarcer by the year. In a time where drought follows after drought and one heat record gets chased by the next, it is absurd to rely on massive amounts of water to produce your electricity.
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[Source.](https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/france-to-speed-up-nuclear-power-deployment/)
> A bill to speed up the construction of new nuclear reactors was approved by the French parliament on Tuesday (16 May), with the government hailing it as an environmental step forward.
Lawmakers on Tuesday validated the bill to accelerate the construction of new nuclear reactors. The compromise text struck between the National Assembly and the Senate was voted by 339 votes to 100.
MPs from the majority (Renaissance, Horizons, Modem), the independents (LIOT), the right (Les Républicains) and the extreme right (Rassemblement national) voted in favour of the text, in addition to a dozen communist MPs.
Among the opponents, the Greens, the radical left (La France insoumise) and a handful of Communists voted “against” while the Socialists abstained.
Once it comes into force, the new law will speed up the construction of new nuclear reactors by simplifying the required administrative procedures and planning documents. The Energy Transition Ministry expects future construction times to be reduced by at least two years.
In addition, a 50% cap on nuclear power’s share of France’s electricity mix was removed. The text also provides for tightening the penalties for those who illegally enter a nuclear power plant, now set at a maximum of two years imprisonment.
This text is part of the government’s strategy to facilitate the development of renewable energies and nuclear power to achieve the energy transition.
Environmental NGOs denounced “a law that is disconnected from ecological and climatic imperatives”. Greenpeace, in particular, questioned “the slowness of the construction of nuclear reactors”, as well as “the safety” and “the conflicts of water use” that are to be expected.
Energy Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher assured left-wing MPs who opposed the text that “voting against renewable energy and nuclear power is voting for fossil fuels. It is a vote for global warming.”
The first construction is expected to begin in 2027. The same day, on Tuesday morning, 16 European states participated in the “nuclear alliance” to prepare a roadmap for developing an integrated European nuclear industry to reach 150 GW of nuclear in the EU electricity mix by 2050.
(Davide Basso | EURACTIV.fr)
Man, fuck Greenpeace.
greenpeace bitching about one of the greenest country of europe while endorsing green washing country that support gas and coal is funny, those propagandist “ONG” should be banned
Germans in PLS.
Lets see if they can follow through it and not repeat the Flamanville 3 disaster. What we don’t need are newly build NPPs that get delayed for at least a decade. If France is really into going nuclear they should speed up building reactors. Otherwise they will sit on old ass reactors that get more and more maintenance heavy with time and what happeened last year with french nuclear might become regular occurance.
So France. Follow through it. Build those new NPPs, don’t delay them and replace your old ones with the newly build. Don’t half ass it by setting the goal to 2050 and don’t rest on your nuclear laurels like you did for more than 20 years.
Definitely a France W
France should charge people and their organisation infiltrating Nuclear plants as terrorists. Their actions are literally endangering the safety of thousands of people.
Or do the American way, post retired snipers at the perimeter with a zero tolerance policy.
Meanwhile, the Flamanville 3 reactor is *still* not finished.
>The first construction is expected to begin in 2027
Ok, so we have to wait 4 years until the contruction starts, which takes another 10 – 15 years.
lol
Again: Germany is going to build 10 GW of solar this year alone. Ignoring wind power.
**Edit:** Why are people downvoting simple facts? It’s a fact that construction starts in 4 years (it’s in the article), it takes 10 years minimum to finish a nuclear power plant (Flamanville 3 takes 17 years so far and the still isn’t commissioned) and Germany is going to build 10 GW of solar this year.
Nuclear power is an old technology, which is too expensive (to build and to run them), too dangerous (cause of accidents and nuclear waste) and makes us dependent on other countries (cause of Uranium). Only the industry and lobbyist like Nuclear power, because they can get billions from us tax payers. Everyone nows that nothing is cheaper and better for normal people than wind and solar power. Don’t let them fool you. The nuclear power lobbyists try everything to change your minds.
I mean they have to. They saw a bigger nuclear output reduction than Germany in the last 20 years but they failed to build up alternatives in the same time unlike Germany
https://i.imgur.com/JQLmPgD.png
Construction will now be 15 years instead of 17. How do you say Frankreichgeschwindigkeit in French?
Exquisite occasion for Framatome/EDF to get those great mafia practices that were used during the building of the Finish Olkiluoto plant from under the dust:
The construction workforce of the Finish Olkiluoto plant included about 3,800 employees from 500 companies. 80% of the workers being foreigners, mostly from eastern European countries. In 2012 it was reported that one Bulgarian contracting firm is owned by the mafia, and that Bulgarian workers have been required to pay weekly protection fees to the mafia, wages have been unpaid, employees have been told not to join a union and that employers also reneged on social security payments.
And when the NPP are finished, they can’t be operated because France don’t have enough water for cooling them.
There are so many points speaking against nuclear (and in favour of Renewables) but in my eyes the most blatantly obvious point is the sheer amount of cooling water needed to operate the reactors in the face of a time where water becomes scarcer by the year. In a time where drought follows after drought and one heat record gets chased by the next, it is absurd to rely on massive amounts of water to produce your electricity.