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Nuclear power plants
| Author | EdF |
| Date | April 1987 |
| Classification | 2.02.0.00/04 (FRANCE - GENERAL) |
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ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE and nuclear power. Nuclear power plants now supply 70% of the electricity generated in France. This result was obtained by carrying out a major nuclear power program, and was made possible by the highly satisfactory operation of the some 50 nuclear units in service to date. The electric power generating facilities have been developed with a single objective: supplying the consumers with electric power at minimum cost. Since 1973, the year of the first oil crisis, the use of nuclear power was extended to substitute uranium for oil, free the country from external fuel procurement constraints and protect currency reserves. If French coal, hydraulic and nuclear supplies are considered together, electrical power is now 90%French. Imports of coal have stabilized, and the consumption of oil in EDF power plants has fallen: 14 million tonnes in 1973, less than 500 000 tonnes in 1986.
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