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\n<\/span><\/p>\nThe nuclear crisis unfolding in Japan will not affect the plans of French power giant EDF to build new reactors in the UK, the company’s boss has told the BBC.<\/p>\n
Vincent de Rivaz said lessons had to be learned but, following years of debate, the new reactors “have to go ahead”.<\/p>\n
He said the company had already reviewed back-up systems and emergency plans at its existing UK plants.<\/p>\n
Some countries are reviewing nuclear strategy in light of events in Japan.<\/p>\n
Last week, China said it had suspended approval for new nuclear power stations following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in north east Japan.<\/p>\n
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has also announced a “measured exit” from nuclear power after shutting down seven of the country’s oldest reactors.<\/p>\n
‘Robust safety’<\/span><\/p>\nThe UK government has commissioned a report into the lessons of the Japanese disaster, the initital findings of which will be published in May.<\/p>\n
Some campaigners have called on the government to go further, with Greenpeace arguing that the approval process for new nuclear sites should be suspended until the report is published.<\/p>\n
But Mr de Rivaz, speaking on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr show, praised what he called the “clear-headed and calm reaction” of the government, regulators and local communities in the UK to the Japan nuclear crisis.<\/p>\n
He said the lessons from Japan had to be put into practice in the new plants in the UK, but said the circumstances in the two countries were very different.<\/p>\n
He said that it was very important to be sure that nuclear plants were safe, and that EDF’s existing UK plants had demonstrated “good, robust safety”.<\/p>\n
“Nuclear is not a single solution [to the UK’s energy needs], but there is no solution without nuclear,” he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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