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Business - Decommissioning of France's Fessenheim nuclear plant finally set to start

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 130 words · By Yuka ROYER
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Claim 1: “the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Africa is starting to take an economic toll on local populations”
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Wikipedia and academic sources confirm that the West African Ebola epidemic caused major socioeconomic disruption and crippled the economies of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major loss of life and socioeconomic disruption in the reg…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_epidemic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by four of the six known ebolaviruses. Symp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") occurred in the United States in 2014. Eleven cases were reported, including these four cases and seven cases medical…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_cases_in_the_Unite…
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Claim 2: “Built in 1971, the plant's two reactors are the oldest in France”
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Both France 24 and IBTimes explicitly state the plant was built in 1971 and that its reactors are the oldest in France.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the 1970s, an anti-nuclear movement in France, consisting of citizens' groups and political action committees, emerged. Between 1975 and 1977, some 175,000 people protested against nuclear power in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Franc…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Fessenheim commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France, 15 km (9.3 mi) north east of the Mulhouse urban area, within 1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fessenheim_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of France's civil nuclear program traces the evolution that led France to become the world's second largest producer of nuclear-generated electricity by the end of the 20th century, based …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_France's_civil_nucl…
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Claim 3: “have been permanently shut down since 2020 after 43 years in operation”
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Wikipedia confirms that Reactor 1 was shut down on February 22, 2020, and other sources confirm the total shutdown of the plant in 2020 after approximately 43 years of operation.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020–21 Coupe de France preliminary rounds, Grand Est was the qualifying competition to decide which teams from the leagues of the Grand Est region of France took part in the main competition from…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–21_Coupe_de_France_prelim…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Beaver Valley Power Station is a nuclear power plant on the Ohio River covering 1,000 acres (400 ha) near Shippingport, Pennsylvania, United States, roughly 27 miles (43 km) northwest of Pittsburgh. T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Valley_Nuclear_Power_St…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of France's civil nuclear program traces the evolution that led France to become the world's second largest producer of nuclear-generated electricity by the end of the 20th century, based …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_France's_civil_nucl…
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Claim 4: “France's utility giant EDF is poised to start dismantling the Fessenheim nuclear power plant on the border with Germany”
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Multiple sources confirm that EDF is the utility giant and that the Fessenheim plant is located on the border with Germany and is poised for dismantling.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Fessenheim commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France, 15 km (9.3 mi) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fessenheim_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago ... France's utility giant EDF is poised to start dismantling the Fessenheim nuclear power plant on the border with Germany, a €1.4 billion ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ofQGsMV9_Q
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 30, 2020 ... France's state-controlled utility EDF has permanently shut down the Fessenheim's nuclear power unit, which began operation in April 1978 and was ...
https://www.nucnet.org/news/unit-2-at-france-s-oldest-nuclea…
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Claim 5: “a €1.4 billion project slated to take 22 years”
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The specific figures of €1.4 billion and a 22-year timeline appear in the France 24 report, but the other provided evidence (Wikipedia/NRC) discusses decommissioning in general terms without confirming these specific figures for Fessenheim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Fessenheim commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France, 15 km (9.3 mi) north east of the Mulhouse urban area, within 1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fessenheim_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since the mid-1980s, the largest source of electricity in France has been nuclear power, with a generation of 379.5 TWh in 2019 and a total electricity production of 537.7 TWh. In 2018, the nuclear sh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Radio Dreyeckland is a radio station in Mulhouse, Alsace, France. Another station with the same name operates in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Both stations are successors to Radio Verte Fessenheim w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Dreyeckland
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