France Shuts Down Its Oldest Nuclear Power Plant
February 21, 2020
3:24 pm
France was due to start the shutdown of its oldest nuclear power plant, at Fessenheim across the Rhine from Germany, on Friday night, German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said.
One of the plantβs two reactors, first linked to the countryβs power grid in 1977, was due to be shut down in a process that would last into early Saturday morning.
The second plant scheduled to follow suit on June 30.
The move is the first in a programme to shut down 14 of Franceβs 58 nuclear reactors by 2035.
The government plans to reduce the proportion of French electricity generated …
