France no longer ties Fessenheim shutdown to start-up of new nuclear reactor | Reuters

France no longer ties Fessenheim shutdown to start-up of new nuclear reactor | Reuters: French Ecology Minister Francois de Rugy said on Thursday the closure of the country's oldest nuclear plant at Fessenheim was not conditional on the start-up of a new reactor that utility EDF is building, and that it would be decommissioned by 2022.