(Reuters) - France's oldest nuclear plant at Fessenheim will not close by 2016, President Francois Hollande was quoted saying on Thursday, going back on a campaign promise, but he added the government will launch "irreversible" procedures for shutting the plant.
France's energy transition law, voted through this summer, caps French nuclear capacity at its current level of 63.2 gigawatts (GW). But Hollande said there was no need to close Fessenheim yet, given the EPR (…)