French president Macron says France will build up to 14 new nuclear generating stations over the next 30 years.
. It’s a gift from God, according to some — the answer to humanity’s prayer for limitless, clean electrical power. It’s the spawn of the Devil, others claim. Not only is there a risk of cataclysmic meltdown , no one has ever figured out what to do with the radioactive waste products that have a half-life measured in millennia. It’s like raising pigs with no plan to deal with all the feces they produce.
This past week, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a “renaissance” for the French nuclear industry as part of that country’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2050. “What our country needs … is the rebirth of France’s nuclear industry.” Macron said French nuclear regulators were “unequaled” in their rigor and professionalism, and that the decision to build new nuclear power plants was a “choice of progress, a choice of confidence in science and technology.
Macron’s challengers on the left warn about the cost and complexity of building new reactors. The Green presidential candidate, Yannick Jadot, said there is a moral imperative to progressively end France’s dependence on nuclear power in order to protect the climate and safety of its citizens. He said Macron’s project was backward-looking and would condemn France to a kind of “energy and industrial obsolescence.
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