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While Denmark continues to say 'no thank you' to nuclear power, the French can look forward to many more nuclear power plants | Elections in France | DR Both Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will invest heavily in nuclear power if they win the French presidential election next Sunday. By Khadija Majdoubi can always see how the weather will be by looking at the steam columns from the local nuclear power plant. They rise vertically from the two chubby cooling towers, it usually gets quiet and good. If they tilt to one of the sides, she can adjust to the wind and rain. They are just there, just like you can see the Eiffel Tower inside Paris. Khadija Majdoubi, resident Here at lunchtime the white water vapor rises almost straight up, and there is also sunny and warm in the French town of Nogent-sur-Seine, close to the Centrale Nucléaire de Nogent nuclear power plant. Khadija Majdoubi has lived here most of her life, and since the late 1980s the light gray concrete towers have been a large part of the city's backdrop.- They are just there, just like you can see inside Paris, says the middle-aged woman who has sat down to the river bank a small kilometer from the nuclear power plant to feed ducks and a single beaver splashing around in the light brown To begin with, Khadija Majdoubi was not particularly enthusiastic about the nuclear power plant's two reactors, which each day produce electricity for thousands of French people. ndt dangerous radioactive material up into the atmosphere and it made her nervous to think that something similar could happen right outside her own kitchen window.But Khadija Majdoubi no longer worries about safety and much has been done to keep the city around 6,000 informed about what is happening at the nuclear power plant. The locals have been given iodine tablets that they can swallow in the event of a serious accident. They can in fact against harmful radiation if a large radioactive release should suddenly occur. In addition, they train from time to time how to act if the disaster scenario should happen anyway. - We have become accustomed to living with it, she explains. For many French people, nuclear power is a completely natural part of everyday life, which they do not give many thoughts.Where a majority of decided in 1985 that Denmark should stay away from nuclear energy, the French politicians have not had any problems with the form of energy that continues. And now nuclear power has also become a central part of the French presidential campaign, which will be decided on April 24. Where the two, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, strongly disagree on everything from and to and immigration policy, they agree to bet big on nuclear power, if elected.In France, there are already 56 nuclear power reactors, which supply more than 70 percent of total French electricity production. It is than in any other country in the world. But Emmanuel Macron, who has been president since 2017, will even give the energy form "a renaissance" and invest billions of public euros in building up to 14 new reactors as well as extending the current ones. Macron was otherwise previously critical of nuclear power. But now he believes that the form of energy can be used to detach the French from foreign energy, not least from Russia, and ensure that the country becomes climate neutral by 2050. The actual energy production on emissions does not. France is already a large nuclear power industry, which, however, has been treated somewhat stepmotherly lately. I want to get rid of as much fossil energy as possible in favor of nuclear power. Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate The center-liberal politician therefore hopes that it can throw even more of not least in the hard-hit suburbs if investment is made in the sector. For that interest in nuclear power has increased in recent years, and competition from not least China has similarly only increased.- There are countries that have made the extreme choice to turn their backs on nuclear power. France does not have that, but we have not invested in it either, said Emmanuel Macron earlier this year. Marine Le Pen, who is on the far right, wants to build 20 new reactors and extend for the current ones. But where Emmanuel Macron also plans to build 50 new offshore wind farms and set up more, Marine Le Pen will remove all public support for those forms of energy and demolish existing turbines. They are, in fact, "horrors that cost us a fortune," as she has stated. In return, she will focus on hydropower and thermal energy. - I want to get rid of as much fossil energy as possible in favor of nuclear power, Marine Le Pen said earlier this week. ten Frenchmen support nuclear power. And according to a survey conducted by the business newspaper, more than half of them want France to invest in both nuclear power and energy at the same time. has been called expensive, unnecessary and an environmental problem. Radioactive waste is produced during production, which is dangerous for humans and the environment if it is spread. There are many alternatives today. Khadija Majdoubi, resident Although Khadija Majdoubi has reconciled with the local nuclear power plant, she does not understand why both are so preoccupied with building more. If it was up to her, they should instead focus entirely on and .- There are many alternatives today, she emphasizes. It is Bruno Cadiz, who sits a little further down the bank with four fishing rods, agrees. The building itself is not exactly his cup of tea, as he puts it, and he would also prefer that the politicians opted for, for example, offshore wind turbines along the French coasts or water turbines.- There is electricity here Seine (the river he fishes in, ed.), so maybe take advantage of it. I think it will work, he says, looking at the river water flowing further into the capital, Paris, and from there out to the English Channel. It is Christophe Latrasse who has been employed at the nuclear power plant for the past 34 years, but not I completely agree with that. I am proud to be involved in producing electricity for our country. Christophe Latrasse, works at the nuclear power plant. to write 'Fidel Castro' when the second round of elections takes place in a week - then he does not share the left wing's otherwise quite cash opposition to the nuclear power plants.- Nuclear power must be the basis of our energy supply. We must also have and solar energy, but if it is not windy or cloudy, there is no electricity, he states. Christophe Latrasse fully agrees that the safety of the power plants must be top notch, and he knows that there is problems disposing of the radioactive waste. Therefore, he also understands well why people can be .But conversely, he can see how the Centrale Nucléaire de Nogent has in many ways developed to become the focal point for many in the local area, which otherwise went a long time in meeting when the many textile factories , which previously lay there, began to close.About 1,200 people work at the nuclear power plant, and many of them come from the local area.- If the nuclear power plant was not there, then the area would be even poorer, states Christophe Latrasse and adds that one must not forget , that the power plant for decades has supplied electricity to the French.- I am proud that I am involved in producing electricity for our country.