National nuclear safety exercise at the Blayais NPP, Braud Et Saint Louis, France - 21 Oct 2021

Severin Buresi, Blayais Plant Deputy Director, poses for a photo at the Blayais Nuclear Power Generation Center plant during a national nuclear safety exercise, in Braud-et-Saint-Louis near Bordeaux, France, 21 October 2021. France has 56 nuclear plants distributed around the country, the second highest number of plants in the world after the US. The plants are managed by EDF the main provider of electric power and majority owned by the government. The nuclear plants produce some 70.6 percent of France's electricity, the highest in the world according to the Nuclear association 2020 report. The Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011 brought the French nuclear safety agency attention to the state of the plants and risks of a nuclear accident in case of natural disasters. Various governments have since then promised to work on possible safety issues. President Macron announced on 12 October "reinventing nuclear power" as a central piece for his 2030 re-industrialization program, with at its center plans to develop small reactor technology and use of the existing nuclear plants electricity to mass produce Hydrogen.

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