Tuesday January 31, Éva Joly convened a press conference to comment on the report of the Court of Auditors on nuclear power. The aim of this report, The Costs of the nuclear power industry, was to establish a costed, precise and exhaustive diagnosis on the cost of nuclear energy. An unprecedented exercise for the Court of Auditors, which is a first step towards opening a real debate on the question of the atom.
Accompanied by Michèle Rivasi, Euro-MP, spokesperson for her campaign, and Denis Baupin, deputy mayor of Paris, the candidate stressed that in terms of energy, "the time for choice has come."
This report dispels the third myth which edified France's subservience to nuclear energy. After the myth of energy independence, after the myth of safe technology, it is now the myth of cheap nuclear energy that is collapsing.
Thanks to this report, we now know that nuclear energy has already cost France 228 billion euros. It is also established that the electricity produced by the Flamanville EPR, if it sees the light of day, will be more expensive than that produced by a wind turbine. And that in order to extend the life of the power plants, 50 billion euros will have to be invested, which is added to the 10 billion needed to bring the plants up to Fukushima standards.
"From today, a choice is imperative for the French: to continue on a ruinous path or to engage in the energy transition".
In addition, the environmental candidate insisted on the uncertainty concerning the costs of dismantling or waste management, uncertainty highlighted by the Court of Auditors.
“We are totally ignorant when it comes to dismantling. Just look at the English experience. The unknown but already prohibitive costs of these operations can only enlighten us on the road to follow: the choice of the energy transition ”.
“Finland, populated for 9 years, will have to pay for its waste for hundreds of thousands of years. The choice before us today is not only ours, but also that of the generations to come. ”
Why am I not surprised by this?
I always said that it was a financial abyss!