Luxembourg offered to chip in financing to close an ageing French nuclear power plant near its border on Monday, saying the tiny nation could be obliterated if the station malfunctioned. During a press conference with his French counterpart Manuel Valls, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said a problem at the Cattenom plant could “wipe the duchy off the map”. “The Cattenom site scares us, there’s no point in hiding it,” he said of the plant that has been in operation since the mid-1980s. “Our greatest wish is that Cattenom should close.”
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