France's oldest nuclear power plant, scheduled for closure in 2018, could be turned into a factory producing electric cars or batteries, the French environment minister said Sunday.
Segolene Royal said Paris and Berlin had agreed during ministerial talks last week to work together to decide the future of the Fessenheim site, which lies on their shared border in north-eastern France. "What the Germans suggested was to work on developing the land to set up a Tesla factory or a factory for making third-generation batteries," Royal said in an interview with French media.