2023-09-07 20:47:45
The honorary president of EDF died this Wednesday at the end of the day. Throughout his career, Marcel Boiteux has been a strong supporter of nuclear energy.
The former boss of EDF Marcel Boiteux, who spent his entire career with “French Electricityfrom 1949, becoming general manager in 1967, then president (1979-1987), and finally honorary president, died Wednesday at the age of 101, we learned Thursday from the group.
«The death of Marcel Boiteux” occured “yesterday (Wednesday) at the end of the day“, said an EDF spokesperson to AFP. Marcel Boiteux had launched a few months before the 1973 OPEC oil embargo against the United States the slogan “All nuclear, all electric», before the second oil shock of 1979 confirmed his option.
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«A legacy to defend. THANKS“, reacted on the social network X the Renaissance deputy of Hauts-de-Seine, also a nuclear engineer, Maud Bregeon. “Artisan of a national consensus around civil nuclear power, linchpin of the Messmer plan“, the vast program of construction of nuclear power plants announced in 1974, he embodied “French energy“, according to the deputy. Under his leadership, the establishment would, for more than ten years, mobilize its technical, financial and human resources to meet the nuclear bet. But Marcel Boiteux had to fight a very tough battle against opponents of nuclear energy, and had narrowly escaped an attack – a bomb had exploded at the entrance to his home in 1977.
Marcel Boiteux, born May 9, 1922 in Niort (Deux-Sèvres), into a Protestant family, was the son and grandson of normaliens. Normalien himself, a graduate of Sciences-Po and agrégé in mathematics, he began, after brilliant service during the Second World War, his career in 1947 at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Joined EDF two years later, he reigned for nine years in the direction of general economic studies, before climbing the ranks of the hierarchy: he was deputy director general (1967), then director general the same year, before taking the chairman of the board of directors in 1979. Allowed to claim his retirement rights in 1987, he became honorary chairman of EDF.
Elected to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1992, Marcel Boiteux had also chaired numerous organizations: European Center for Public Enterprise (1982-85), Institute for Higher Scientific Studies (IHES) (1985-1994), Conference Energy World (1986-89), Board of Directors of the Institut Pasteur (1988-1994), EDF Foundation (1987-2001). In 2008, he became a member of the Strategic Orientation Committee of the Sustainable Environment Federation (FED), an association opposed to wind power. Marcel Boiteux was Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Croix-de-guerre 39-45, Commander of the German Order of Merit.
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