{"id":254880,"date":"2023-04-27T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254880"},"modified":"2023-04-27T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:59:26","slug":"frances-struggle-to-deliver-a-second-nuclear-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254880","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s struggle to deliver a second nuclear era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Emmanuel Macron, who was already doubling down on the low carbon technology even before Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine dialled up concerns across the continent over energy security, is pushing to have the first in a series of six new reactors up and running by 2035. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plans, which could be extended by at least another eight reactors, are the linchpin in France\u2019s vision to reduce its net emissions to zero over the next three decades, in line with international agreements to limit the rise in average global temperatures. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to stand a chance of turning this vision into reality, the government estimates it needs to find another 100,000 nuclear specialists of all guises, from engineers and project supervisors to boilermakers and electricians, over the coming six years. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looming large, beyond hurdles with design approvals and financing for the \u20ac52bn programme, is an even more basic question \u2014 whether France, Europe\u2019s main atomic nation, still has the industrial capacity and people to make the projects happen on a scale it has not contemplated since the 1970s. \u201cThe biggest challenge is whether we know how to orchestrate a very large industrial project. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one really does these in Europe any more. It\u2019s China, India,\u201d says Antoine Armand, a lawmaker in Macron\u2019s Renaissance party who steered a recent parliamentary probe into the state of France\u2019s energy sector.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For others, doubts over when France will be able to deliver are a reason to pursue the rollout of renewable energy in a much greater way in the short term. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going into this with a sort of forceful optimism saying everything is going to be fine. However, today, there is nothing to guarantee that,\u201d says lawmaker Barbara Pompili, a minister under Macron in his first term, but who has just left his party.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Emmanuel Macron, who was already doubling down on the low carbon technology even before Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine dialled up concerns across the continent over energy security, is pushing to have the first in a series of six new reactors up and running by 2035. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":254886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819117,691819118,691818154],"class_list":{"0":"post-254880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-net-zero","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0french-nulcear-power-station.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14iY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":264515,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264515","url_meta":{"origin":254880,"position":0},"title":"French President Suggests Taxing America to Save the European Green Energy Dream","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"29\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Perhaps Macron is testing the water, to see if US politicians can be manipulated into providing even more money.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Macron-78.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Macron-78.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Macron-78.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Macron-78.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0-Macron-78.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":233071,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=233071","url_meta":{"origin":254880,"position":1},"title":"French President: Stop Scaremongering About Green Electricity Blackouts","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/12\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"According to French President Macron, talk of winter blackouts are \"scenarios of fear\" which have to\u00a0stop.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-192.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-192.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-192.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-192.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-192.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":208717,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=208717","url_meta":{"origin":254880,"position":2},"title":"France Turns Off the Lights","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"15\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cFrench President Emmanuel Macron listens to explanations as he visits the STMicroelectronics (STM) company in Crolles, southeastern France, Tuesday July 12, 2022.\u201d Macron urges French to turn off lights and brace for Russian gas cut Not quite as convincing as Michael Dukakis in 1988. 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