FRENCH presidential hopefuls Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have unveiled ambitious plans to boost France's nuclear power capacity - already at 70 percent of its domestic electricity generation - but experts have questioned the feasibility.
reach net zero by 2050. Alongside this, Macron is also looking to extend the operational lifetime of the country’s 32 oldest existing nuclear reactors by 10 years to half a century, thereby avoiding having to shut them down this decade. The new plants — advanced versions of the European Pressurised Reactor model — will be built and operated by state-owned utility EDF at a cost of €50billion .
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