Nuclear group Areva insists public trusts sector

Two years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis, the head of French group Areva, a leading company in the sector, insisted that public confidence in atomic energy has been re-established.

"We're seeing this confidence return," Luc Oursel told journalists in Warsaw on Monday.

"In Europe, there are more and more countries favouring nuclear than those opposing it," he insisted.

That position was not shared by German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier, who said in early January that his country, the biggest European economy, would never return to nuclear power after Berlin decided in the wake of the Japanese disaster to shut down reactors.
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