{"id":52158,"date":"2026-07-16T07:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/52158\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:14:24","slug":"warming-europe-complicates-frances-bet-on-nuclear-power-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/52158\/","title":{"rendered":"Warming Europe complicates France\u2019s bet on nuclear power \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe water issue is one of the key factors in determining which sites to select,\u201d confirmed one senior French official, who was granted anonymity to speak about the confidential selection procedure, which will conclude by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Grudler, who chairs a cross-party group of pro-nuclear lawmakers in the European Parliament, concurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is certain that climate change is taken into account in deciding the location of new plants. If you invest \u20ac13 billion in a site and it becomes obsolete the very next day because there isn\u2019t enough water to cool the core, the investment is not right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Former energy minister Agn\u00e8s Pannier-Runacher, who helped draw up Macron\u2019s nuclear energy policy during his second term, is confident that the government can find a sufficient number of sites for new nuclear plants, even if \u201cit won\u2019t happen in the blink of an eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNuclear power plants have been designed with an overemphasis on safety and security. They are in fact much more robust [&#8230;] than many other facilities in our energy system,\u201d she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franceinfo.fr\/environnement\/evenements-meteorologiques-extremes\/vagues-de-chaleur-canicules\/encore-7-900-foyers-toujours-prives-d-electricite-a-cause-des-orages-et-de-la-chaleur_8087204.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">citing concerns over the electric grid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, it needs to be factored into the to-do list, but it isn\u2019t a challenge that stands out on the critical path of nuclear power plant construction,\u201d said Pannier-Runacher.<\/p>\n<p>Elisa Bertholomey contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe water issue is one of the key factors in determining which sites to select,\u201d confirmed one senior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12859],"tags":[3327,824,8739,4250,1304,36,544,5,2079,1997,1329,4330,1320,988,3177],"class_list":["post-52158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-electricite-de-france","tag-biodiversity","tag-climate-change","tag-edf","tag-electricite-de-france","tag-electricity","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-energy","tag-france","tag-investment","tag-meps","tag-nuclear-power","tag-rights","tag-safety","tag-security","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}