E-mail communication Bruno Comby to John Shanahan
Save the FESSENHEIM nuclear power plant in France Bruno Comby March 30, 2020 Dear friends of clean nuclear energy, Unfortunately I confirm and agree to this very sad news: 120 billion euros have been wasted in France in recent years, just before the country is now entering a major financial crisis caused by the COVID 19 virus and a violent economic recession. This is the cumulated total cost of the existing program for wind and solar in France. The money would have been better spent using half of that amount (60 billion â‚Ź) on building 15 to 20 brand new modern hospitals and upgrading the excellent but with a constantly decreasing budget health care system of France. And the other half (another 60 billion â‚Ź) for building an additional nuclear capacity of 15 to 20 GW (10 EPR reactors) of clean nuclear power to deliver large amounts of clean power to France and the whole of Europe, making possible increased energy security in Europe and the conversion of a large proportion of the European transportation system to electric. This would at last make Europe much less dependent on oil from the Middle East and on gas imported in large quantities from Russia. Instead the French government prefers to halt operations at the highly profitable, recently modernized (post-Fukushima) NPP of Fessenheim, and announces another 12 similar NPP closures, based on absolutely no technical or safety issue, just for the pleasure of closing and (quoting the French government : "for lowering France's dependence on nuclear energy in the coming years..." but in fact there is no such dependence ! (it is just to please the antinuclear greens in the hope of getting their votes in an alliance for the next elections) while subsidizing always more (120 billion euros isn't enough...) the useless wind turbines at great expense. All this is breaking apart our beautiful country of France, our industry, our (in the past) healthy economy, and our wonderful health care system. It is very sad and stupid, caused only by absurd political decisions. This was started by Sarkozy and then amplified by Hollande and Macron, both are simply blind (and opportunistic) presidents. France used to be "the way to go" and "the example of a country you should follow" both for its successful nuclear program and its well managed efficient health care system. If 1