France seems committed to building more nuclear power plants and now gets 77% of its electricity from nuclear energy. The French nuclear company Electricite de France is also trying to buy British Energy and is committed to building nuclear power plants in the U.A.E. and China. French president Nicolas Sarkozy argues it is a good thing saying that each nuclear reactor replacing a coal one saves two billion cubic meters of gas each year. The public on the other hand, isn't so sure. Bottled water sales have increased over the past year, and news has come out about 100 workers being contaminated in Tricastin and about nuclear chemicals escaping into tributaries of the Rhone river. The French government insists that the accidents are minor and have almost no effect, but the public continues to speculate.
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