France’s Nuclear Champion Sacrificed to Stave Off Energy Crisis
- State-run utility EDF forced to sell power at a discount
- The backbone of French energy supply looks weaker than ever
Reactor buildings beside the Donzere Mondragon canal at the Tricastin Evolutionary Power Reactor nuclear power plant, in Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, France.
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High energy prices are bearing down on Europe’s economy like a freight train, and France just pushed its largest electricity producer into the path of the collision.