On Wednesday evening, Vincent De Rivaz, Chief Executive of EDF Energy, was interviewed on the UK’s Sky News channel. It was the same day as the UK government announcing its latest nuclear power strategy.

The interview is worth watching because of the evasions and contradictions in what Mr De Rivaz said. Unfortunately they weren’t challenged by the interviewer so, in a short series, we're going to challenge them instead ( - part one is here).

Mr De Rivaz said, ‘I am very open to debate and discussions’ with the like of Greenpeace on the matter of nuclear power and climate change. Debate? What debate? How is this debate to conducted? Where will these discussions take place?

What about the debate at the European Commission’s European Nuclear Energy Forum (Enef) from which ‘Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Sortir du Nucléaire, the only groups invited into the industry-dominated body, have walked out, accusing Enef of stifling critical voices, ignoring their concerns and riding roughshod over alternative scientific evidence’? EDF is part of that industry-dominated body. Where was Mr De Rivaz’s openness to debate and discussion at those meetings?