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Greenpeace warns of flooding risks at France's biggest nuclear plant

Gravelines nuclear power station on the Channel coast is already the most powerful in Western Europe. © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0

Greenpeace is urging French energy giant EDF to abandon its plans to build two new reactors at its Gravelines nuclear plant, citing the risk of flooding due to rising sea levels. The environmental group accuses the French nuclear industry of underestimating the threat to the coastal site.

With six 900MW reactors, the Gravelines nuclear power plant on the Channel coast is already the most powerful in Western Europe.

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