Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) — Electricite de France SA Chief Executive Officer Henri Proglio said a French exit from nuclear energy would cost 400 billion euros ($544 billion) and threaten one million jobs.
The spending would be needed to develop alternative power sources while 90 percent of the lost jobs would be in France’s atomic industry and at power-hungry factories, Proglio was quoted as saying in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper today. Spokeswoman Carole Trivi confirmed the figures. (…)