25/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - France is prepared to halt nuclear reactors if necessary. This is what the French nuclear minister, Eric Besson, said on the fringes of the 24 November Energy Council, responding to the publication the same day by the European Commission of the nuclear stress test results for the 143 atomic power plants in operation in the EU. Besson repeated comments by the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to the European Council on 24 March 2011 that the French government...