Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Japan on Thursday, becoming the first foreign head of state to set foot in this country after the last day 11 earthquake and tsunami shake the north. Either way, the president of the French Republic, through a statement announcing his visit when the stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima still appearing on TV news all wrapped in smoke and the Japanese government is on high alert for radioactive contamination emanates from its reactors.
In fact, two French technicians in nuclear technology experts have already traveled to Japan, upon request of the country to collaborate with Japanese specialists in resolving the crisis, explained this morning, Environment Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. These two specialists, one of the French nuclear group Areva and one from the Atomic Energy Commission, will help their Japanese counterparts in the work of pumping and treatment of radioactive water, as the minister said.
Sarkozy will visit Japan after attending in China on Thursday morning and economic meetings related to his presidency of the G-8 and G-20. Will be little time on the island. And it will be a trip aimed, as secured in the Elysee, "to witness the solidarity of France with the Japanese people." But also the visit of a head of state whose country is involved all the way in nuclear energy, whose leading industrial groups exported nuclear technology worldwide, from India to Britain and from China to Italy.
In France, moreover, there are 58 nuclear reactors, making it the second country in the world in number of plants (only surpassed by the U.S.). 80% of the electricity consumed comes from the French nuclear power plants. This entails that the bill is cheaper than the average European country.
The crisis in Japan has generated a debate in France, but the terms are not, as in other places "Is nuclear power good?" or "Is it dangerous?". In France, the question is simply: "Can we do without it and when?." Sarkozy said he would continue investing in that kind of energy a few days after the disaster of Fukushima.
And the Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, was very clear when asked about it: "To say that we abandon nuclear energy in coming decades is to tell stories." Neither the French Socialist Party (PS) calls for a withdrawal of nuclear explosive but points to a transition to other resources. Only environmentalists have expressed completely opposite and have requested a referendum.
Moreover, in the last local elections in France, the second round was held on Sunday, nuclear power was not even remotely controversial campaign issue, as has happened in Germany. And no one has claimed to defeat Sarkozy nuclear gamble. 
In fact, two French technicians in nuclear technology experts have already traveled to Japan, upon request of the country to collaborate with Japanese specialists in resolving the crisis, explained this morning, Environment Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. These two specialists, one of the French nuclear group Areva and one from the Atomic Energy Commission, will help their Japanese counterparts in the work of pumping and treatment of radioactive water, as the minister said.
Sarkozy will visit Japan after attending in China on Thursday morning and economic meetings related to his presidency of the G-8 and G-20. Will be little time on the island. And it will be a trip aimed, as secured in the Elysee, "to witness the solidarity of France with the Japanese people." But also the visit of a head of state whose country is involved all the way in nuclear energy, whose leading industrial groups exported nuclear technology worldwide, from India to Britain and from China to Italy.
In France, moreover, there are 58 nuclear reactors, making it the second country in the world in number of plants (only surpassed by the U.S.). 80% of the electricity consumed comes from the French nuclear power plants. This entails that the bill is cheaper than the average European country.
The crisis in Japan has generated a debate in France, but the terms are not, as in other places "Is nuclear power good?" or "Is it dangerous?". In France, the question is simply: "Can we do without it and when?." Sarkozy said he would continue investing in that kind of energy a few days after the disaster of Fukushima.
And the Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, was very clear when asked about it: "To say that we abandon nuclear energy in coming decades is to tell stories." Neither the French Socialist Party (PS) calls for a withdrawal of nuclear explosive but points to a transition to other resources. Only environmentalists have expressed completely opposite and have requested a referendum.
Moreover, in the last local elections in France, the second round was held on Sunday, nuclear power was not even remotely controversial campaign issue, as has happened in Germany. And no one has claimed to defeat Sarkozy nuclear gamble.
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