France is preparing a new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

The next French aircraft carrier will be nuclear-powered, President Emmanuel Macron announced at a presentation of the details of the project. Its construction will begin at the end of 2025, eleven years later it will pass tests and it should enter service in 2038. It will replace the existing nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The price of the vessel is estimated at seven billion euros - 184.5 billion crowns.

Macron said on Tuesday, nuclear energy will remain the cornerstone of our strategic autonomy. That's why I decided that the future aircraft carrier that will serve our country and the navy will be, like Charles de Gaulle, nuclear-powered.

The choice of core will allow the vessel almost unlimited range and sailing time. In addition to the French, only the Americans own a nuclear aircraft carrier, which operates 11 of them. France is also one of the countries with a high share of nuclear energy in the energy mix.

The new vessel will weigh 70,000 tons and measure 300 meters in length and 40 in width. It can accommodate two thousand crew members and thirty aircraft, and the upper deck can hold up to 25 machines at a time. Precisely due to the takeoff of the machines, the upper deck at the widest point is 80 meters, the media describe.

Part of the ship's equipment will be of American origin. It should serve until 2080, the AP agency writes, referring to the adviser to the head of the Elysee Palace.

The aircraft carrier allows the state to intervene anywhere in the world, and is thus considered one of the conditions of superpower status. By far the most run by Americans.

In a speech, Macron also announced an investment of 500 million euros (13.1 billion crowns) in the nuclear-related industry and a special fund for its modernization and the search for ways to store nuclear waste according to the information from the AP agency. A world conference will begin in video conference on Saturday, five years after the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement.