>This marks a sea change in France’s approach to nuclear energy. The 1974 Messmer plan (named after then PM Pierre Messmer) poured colossal investment into nuclear power after the previous year’s oil crisis caused by the OPEC embargo exposed the fragility of
France’s reliance on imported oil. The strategy allows France to source more than 70 percent of its energy from nuclear power – the highest proportion in the world. Until now,
this huge nuclear sector has been built around ever-larger reactors.
Compete with China, after we largely gave them our tech for free…
This is infuriating.
I hope he knows China is going to steal the tech then kick them out of the country.
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>This marks a sea change in France’s approach to nuclear energy. The 1974 Messmer plan (named after then PM Pierre Messmer) poured colossal investment into nuclear power after the previous year’s oil crisis caused by the OPEC embargo exposed the fragility of
France’s reliance on imported oil. The strategy allows France to source more than 70 percent of its energy from nuclear power – the highest proportion in the world. Until now,
this huge nuclear sector has been built around ever-larger reactors.
Compete with China, after we largely gave them our tech for free…
This is infuriating.
I hope he knows China is going to steal the tech then kick them out of the country.