In the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear crisis at Fukushima, some European nations are rethinking their atomic plans. But France, home to 58 of 143 reactors in the EU, remains nuclear energy’s champion, and plans not to retire its power stations but to expand them. Emma Jane Kirby examines why.
For many tourists visiting the tranquil north Normandy coast, the giant EPR reactor at Flamanville is little more than a lamentable industrial scar on a rather beautiful landscape.
But to the French (…)
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