The decommissioning itself, which is unique in France on this scale, is expected to start in 2025 and last until at least 2040. It is turning a page in history.
The decommissioning itself, which is unique in France on this scale, should start in 2025 and last until at least 2040.
A page is being turned in the history of the French nuclear industry. Fessenheim, France’s oldest nuclear power plant, will produce no more electricity: The second reactor was disconnected from the national power grid at 11 p.m. Monday, a twilight hailed as a victory by nuclear opponents but heartbreaking for employees and residents.
“There was a lot of excitement on the part of the Fessenheim teams and the entire nuclear fleet,” an EDF spokesman told AFP. A little before 11:00 a.m., twenty employees were summoned to the parking lot in front of the factory, which was put into operation in 1977, to attend the issuance of the final verdict. The ability to move group photos in front of the fence gate.
“Fessenheim sacrificed!”
Philippe Formery laments the “disorder”, talks about his “anger” and tears come to my eyes. He was part of the team that shut down the first reactor on February 22. “Before there was a lot of anger, now there is sadness,” said Sebastian Reyne, who has worked at the plant since 1996 and is part of the 60-person team that will be in charge of the dismantling. “I should have come, lived these last moments” among colleagues.
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Banners protesting the closure are always hung on the fence of the venue, with the slogan “Fessenheim is sacrificed!” or “The early closing is history’s fault.” Nuclear power advocates also demonstrated in Paris at night outside the Greenpeace headquarters.
the closure of the Fessenheim factory, located on the Rhine border near Germany and Switzerland, acts as the final point, after years of turmoil, debate and reports of his arrest. Its two 900 megawatt (MW) pressurized water reactors produced an average of 11 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, which is 70% of the electricity consumption of a region like Alsace.
“One step” for anti-nuclear activists
In the early afternoon, anti-nuclear, organized a boat trip, sailing on the Rhine, on the border of France and Germany. “A symbol of Franco-German friendship in the fight against nuclear power plants”, according to Andre Hatz, president of Stop Fessenheim. “This is the definitive closure of this plant that we have waited so long for. However, there is a bit of a triumph of sobriety, because it is a step, there are still another 56 reactors to close. The fight must continue,” said Charlotte Mijeon, a spokeswoman for Out of Nuclear power.
Having decided that they would not go to Fessenheim, in order “not to create a provocation”, about a hundred anti-nuclear activists, French and German, gathered in the late afternoon on the bridge over the Rhine River, right on the border. A buoy filled with golden glitter, a symbol of nuclear energy thrown into the water, was thrown into the river.
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“We got there, the second reactor, the Fessenheim farm today, is the culmination of fifty years of joint struggle between the French and Germans to protect our way of life,” spokeswoman Suzie Rousselot told Stop Fessenheim, to loud applause.
Economic air hole
The decommissioning of the plant is likely to take a long time: the decommissioning of the two reactors is expected to take fifteen years, beginning with the evacuation of the highly radioactive fuel, which will be completed at best in 2023. The decommissioning itself, which is unique in France on this scale, is expected to start in 2025 and last until at least 2040.
A victory for the French, German and Swiss anti-nuclear fighters, this closure, on the contrary, provoked the ire of the plant’s employees and the majority of the 2,500 inhabitants of the municipality. Only sixty EDF employees will lead to its dissolution by 2024. At the end of 2017, there were still 750 and 300 service providers.
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As for the inhabitants of this once humble town, they have lived for decades, thanks to the significant economic and fiscal effects of the installation and they fear a big economic air hole: no projects have officially stopped for after Fessenheim. Closing the plant, because “it is in good working order and has passed all the safety tests”, is “absurd and incomprehensible”, laments the mayor Claude Brender.
Update date: July 1, 2020, 05:58
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