For several weeks, the temperature in France, like other European countries, reaches 40 degrees Celsius.

In many places there is not enough drinking water, the soil is drying up, and forest fires are raging.

About 1/5 of France's 56 reactors will be shut down or at least reduced to a minimum because the rivers into which they dump their heated cooling water are now too warm and above the set temperature limit.

Under normal conditions, electricity generated at nuclear power plants accounts for about 70 percent of France's electricity production.

This is more than in any other country.

The French government allocated 150 billion euros for the nuclear sector: for maintenance of existing and construction of new nuclear power plants.

This is much more than investing in the renewable energy sector.

France is the only European country that has not met the EU's renewable energy targets by 2020 — they accounted for around 19% of France's electricity production, not 23% as previously thought.