| Author (Person) | Boxell, James |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 4.1.12 |
| Publication Date | 04/01/2012 |
| Content Type | News |
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Article reported that France and its national electricity supplier, EDF, were told on the 3 January 2012 that they will need to spend billions of euros on making their 58 nuclear reactors conform to tough new safety standards deemed necessary after the 2011 atomic disaster at Fukushima in Japan. Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN), the French nuclear safety authority said in a report that none of the reactors needed to be shut down immediately but demanded a 'massive' investment to ensure the sites could withstand a Fukushima-style natural shock. France has the world’s biggest dependence on nuclear power, which supplies about three-quarters of its electricity, all of it provided by EDF. The ASN stress-tests were ordered as part of a European Union-wide move to assess the resistance of European nuclear power plants to natural disasters after the incident in Japan in 2011. Some countries such as Germany decided to accelerate their exit from nuclear power after the accident. The EU is due to publish its conclusions in June 2012. |
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| Subject Categories | Energy |
| Countries / Regions | Europe, France |
