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Power plant shutdowns hinder France’s ‘nuclear adventure’ | Financial Times

"Before Russia invaded Ukraine, French president Emmanuel Macron promised in February to restart France’s “nuclear adventure”, unveiling a €52bn plan to build new reactors in a strategy partly aimed at cutting the country’s carbo"n emissions while providing energy security.
France derived 69 per cent of its electricity output from atomic power last year. The outages have cut that to 59 per cent — hitting state-controlled energy group EDF’s finances.".....
"However, France has little wriggle-room as it plans for a less carbon intensive future. Like EU neighbours it aims to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. But despite investment, it lags behind European neighbours in building solar and wind power due to bureaucracy and its long reliance on nuclear energy.The energy crisis has added to the urgency.

Macron had initially appeared agnostic on nuclear, overseeing the shutdown of one plant in 2018 as it reached the end of its life. But now he has doubled down on atomic power.
When announcing the six planned new EPRs, which would replace existing ageing reactors, in February, the president said another eight could follow.
He also unveiled a plan to extend the lifespan of all nuclear plants past the standard 40 years where possible, effectively abandoning his previous goal of cutting France’s reliance on nuclear energy to 50 per cent by 2035.
“The time for our nuclear renaissance is here,” he said in a speech at a nuclear reactor turbine factory in eastern France.
Europe is also reliant on French output.

France was the region’s biggest net exporter of power last year, supplying neighbours such as Italy and Germany — despite the latter shutting down its own nuclear industry over environmental concerns.“When you see plans for gas and coal plant closures, we’re going to need French nuclear power even more in the European system by 2030,” said Valérie Faudon, the executive director of Sfen, a science-based group that promotes the nuclear industry.".....

They aparrently are currently looking at skilled labor to begin once approved building the new reactors.

If anyone here needs a job, perhaps wine cheese and French cuisine may be part of the charm of building a Nuclear Reactor in France for a day job while playing or composing music, making art work, as a passion or, just diving into their romantic culture....IMO...it's always a possibility, get job training at Rolls Royce? Just a thought.