Officials in France have announced the existing Bugey nuclear power station near Lyon will be the site of two new EPR reactors. The government of President Emmanuel Macron last year said the country could add more than a dozen new reactors to the country’s energy mix over the next several years.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the minister for France’s energy transition, said Bugey had been chosen because it was “more ready” for construction to begin than Tricastin, another site considered for the reactors. French officials have said nuclear power is a major part of the country’s efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050
