VIENNA, June 20 | Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:08pm EDT
(Reuters) - France will unveil in the next few weeks a substantial rise in research funds for nuclear safety in the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear crisis, a ministerial source told Reuters on Monday.
Japan’s crisis has prompted a rethink of energy policy worldwide, underlined by Germany’s decision to close all its reactors by 2022 and Italy’s vote to ban nuclear for decades.
But France, the world’s second largest nuclear energy producer (…)