Saying that a moratorium on new nuclear power plants is "a choice of the past, of the Middle Ages," French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday reaffirmed his faith in nuclear power and the need to continue France’s nuclear program despite the accident at Japan’s Fukushima 1, or Daiichi, nuclear power plant.
Sarkozy was speaking to employees of EDF’s Gravelines nuclear power plant near Dunkirk on the Channel coast.
Sarkozy said he came to the site to show "France’s confidence in you, in (…)