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During a visit to Pierrelatte near the Tricastin nuclear power plant in southern France, the French president said the pre electoral pact by the Socialists and Greens parties to shut 24 reactors across France by 2025 was a threat to the country industry and the purchasing power of French households.

He reiterated his right leaning ruling UMP party will to power ahead with its nuclear programme and said the 2018 canada goose outlet proposal to shut down more than a third of the country reactors would cost French consumers 5 billion euros ($6.63 billion) a canada goose outlet toronto factory year.

While the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan cheap Canada Goose in March has fuelled speculation France would canada goose clearance sale give up its plans to build the Penly reactor, in northwestern France, the government has repeatedly denied the project has been ditched.

maintain the project to build a reactor in Penly, Sarkozy, who has yet to make his candidacy official for the 2012 presidential election, said on Friday.

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A 59th reactor is currently buy canada goose jacket cheap under construction in Flamanville in Canada Goose Jackets northwestern France, and the project is hit by delays canada goose black friday sale and cost overruns.

Both parties agreed to shut France 24 oldest reactors by 2025 and build no new reactor, marking a U turn in socialist ideology.

Socialist president Francois Mitterrand deployed the French nuclear energy programme in the 1980s and canada goose early 1990s to boost France energy independence.

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president and the UMP are pretending to forget the huge number of jobs which would be created by the dismantling of reactors in France and abroad, managing nuclear energy waste and through the development of renewables, it said in a statement.

State owned nuclear power producer EDF recently delayed by a few months public consultations necessary to give canada goose coats on sale the go ahead for construction of Penly, blaming safety tests carried out after the Fukushima disaster.

Penly, which would be France second new generation reactor after the one being built in Flamanville, was originally due for construction from 2012 and set to start production from 2017. ($1 = 0.7536 euros) (Additional reporting by Marie Maitre; editing by Jason Neely and James Jukwey).