Thursday, March 17, 2011

"The coming hours will be critical"

The government feared Wednesday, March 16 the "worst case" in the nuclear catastrophe underway in Japan, with an impact "superior" to Chernobyl, but Nicolas Sarkozy has reaffirmed the "relevance" of the French nuclear option and rejected any referendum on his future. In the afternoon, Sarkozy chaired an interministerial meeting on the nuclear accident in Fukushima, with François Fillon, Christine Lagarde, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet and Eric Besson.

The latter two had to be auditioned in the Assembly with representatives of the nuclear industry, taking all of fearmongering. "The situation in Japan is extremely alarming, it is very serious, and the next few hours are critical hours," said the head of state late in the day, opening a discourse on business.

"There is a risk of deconfinement on the reactor number two, probably on reactor number three, there is also a risk of dewatering reactors that should be immersed in pools of spent fuel (and) that are more" explained Ms Kosciusko-Morizet after the Council of Ministers. On the same mode worried, the government spokesman has Baroin, too, conceded to reporters that "the worst case scenario is a hypothesis we can not rule today." Adding that "the worst case scenario, it is obviously a greater impact than Chernobyl." Without giving details, the budget minister justified his deductible required by a "finding of lucidity" and will "not deny the seriousness of what is happening." We are in dire emergency, "said the president of Areva, Anne Lauvergeon, in the Assembly.

The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) spoke of" extremely heavy fallout in the housing facilities " Exhibitor stakeholders "to extremes." Despite the concerns, Nicolas Sarkozy took advantage of the Council of Ministers to reaffirm their refusal to challenge the nuclear shift operated in the 1960s by France, and stressed the "relevance" of this option for the country and "energy independence." He insisted on "Technical Excellence" from the safety device of French Park.

remarks described as "shameful" by the network Sortir du nucléaire, which brings together more than eight hundred associations antinuclear. As Mr. Fillon Tuesday before the House, Mr Sarkozy has promised that the state would derive "lessons of the accident Fukushima (...) through a comprehensive review of safety systems of nuclear power plants (on the National Ground) "and that" this work will be made public.

"But the president rejected the idea of \u200b\u200ba referendum on nuclear power demanded by environmentalists or even that of a debate, claimed by the NGOs of environment. "Energy policy is a key issue for public debate, he conceded the government must be attentive to all stakeholders and gather their proposals for optimizing our energy policy." But no question of going beyond, confirmed Baroin.

"There is no referendum to consider on this subject, let's be serious and reasonable," he said, recalling that the nuclear option was "shared by all governments of left and right for forty years."

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