Not a day of respite for EDF. Just as the electrician was there informed that the problems of welds encountered on several nuclear reactors do not threaten their operation that it must face a day of strike action: Thursday, the inter (CGT, CFDT, FO and CFE-CGC) called for a mobilization against the project Hercules, which aims to split the group into two entities.

1500 agents of EDF but also gas, employees of the Engie, of Enedis (distribution) and RTE (réseau), according to the trade unions, demonstrated in the early afternoon behind a huge banner in the unit “No to the dismantling of EDF, Not to the project Hercules”, near the ministry of energy Transition in Paris.

While a public sector would retain control over the nuclear, a second set, open to the contribution of external capital, meet renewable energies in particular, the branch of commerce and the manager of the distribution network Enedis. This option, promoted by the Elysée palace, represents …