French public support for nuclear
power is rising ahead of recommendations on a new energy policy
law for the country, as fears about its dangers fade.
Some 36 percent of people surveyed said they favored
France’s use of nuclear power with only 14 percent saying they
opposed it, an Ifop poll released today for the newspaper Ouest
France showed. That compares with 32 percent in favor of nuclear
power and 20 percent opposed in July 2011.
Concerns about nuclear power rose in France after a March
2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami crippled Japan’s
Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant, causing three reactor core
meltdowns, forcing about 160,000 people to evacuate and leaving
about 132 square kilometers as a no-go zone.
French President Francois Hollande has pledged to cut the
country’s reliance on nuclear power. Electricite de France SA’s
58 atomic reactors currently provide more than three-quarters of
electricity, a proportion Hollande vowed to reduce to 50 percent
by around 2025.
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