Just wait until the ugly part of the r/uninsurable crowd starts spilling utter lies in opposition to this.
So France is looking to become the EU electricity hub? Really smart move.
This is good news. I wish the US would start doing this but due to bad press Americans have a fear of nuclear power which is actually very safe.
We will see. There are so many reasons not to use nuclear, that I doubt this will ever come to fruition…
Macron has three years left. These plants will not be built while he is in office. The French nuclear industry is plagued with scandals and anaccounted liabilities. Talk is cheap but the likelihood of this coming to fruition is tiny.
The world, as a whole, needs to develop a template of a nuclear plant and make it standard
They’re just going to end up with cheap electricity, low carbon emissions and clean air.
France is looking like the smartest country with their nuclear push.
Meanwhile, dummies like Spain are phasing out nuclear power, maybe they can get their electricity from France
If only the rest of the West could have embraced nuclear like France.
France soon to be single-handedly powering western Europe
if you’re going to maintain your nuclear arsenal, it only make senses to have power plants
While the rest of us idiotic europeans countries are closing them… and then crying how russian gas is expensive and similar stuff like that(hello from spain..)
Iceland says they figured out how to tap a freaking VOLCANO for geothermal energy. If this gets adopted in more places, that’s another source of abundant baseload energy we can use alongside nuclear.
Ridiculous – they aren’t able to finish one in the last 15 years… (wishful thinking and propaganda)
Flamanville-3: actual construction time is 16 years and it is still not yet finished and the costs according to the press up-to-now 15 000 000 000 €….
The other European EPR success story is Olkiluoto 3 which went operational last year after 10 years of delay (Framatome/Areva/Siemens agreed to pay 850 000 000 € compensation for the delay)
The Chinese EPR (Taishan) went operational in 2019 – but had already some trouble
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Smart.
Just wait until the ugly part of the r/uninsurable crowd starts spilling utter lies in opposition to this.
So France is looking to become the EU electricity hub? Really smart move.
This is good news. I wish the US would start doing this but due to bad press Americans have a fear of nuclear power which is actually very safe.
We will see. There are so many reasons not to use nuclear, that I doubt this will ever come to fruition…
Macron has three years left. These plants will not be built while he is in office. The French nuclear industry is plagued with scandals and anaccounted liabilities. Talk is cheap but the likelihood of this coming to fruition is tiny.
in 20 years they will be operating 😆
It took decades to build the new Flamanville reactor
source https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrale_nucl%C3%A9aire_de_Flamanville
The world, as a whole, needs to develop a template of a nuclear plant and make it standard
They’re just going to end up with cheap electricity, low carbon emissions and clean air.
France is looking like the smartest country with their nuclear push.
Meanwhile, dummies like Spain are phasing out nuclear power, maybe they can get their electricity from France
If only the rest of the West could have embraced nuclear like France.
France soon to be single-handedly powering western Europe
if you’re going to maintain your nuclear arsenal, it only make senses to have power plants
While the rest of us idiotic europeans countries are closing them… and then crying how russian gas is expensive and similar stuff like that(hello from spain..)
Iceland says they figured out how to tap a freaking VOLCANO for geothermal energy. If this gets adopted in more places, that’s another source of abundant baseload energy we can use alongside nuclear.
Ridiculous – they aren’t able to finish one in the last 15 years… (wishful thinking and propaganda)
Flamanville-3: actual construction time is 16 years and it is still not yet finished and the costs according to the press up-to-now 15 000 000 000 €….
The other European EPR success story is Olkiluoto 3 which went operational last year after 10 years of delay (Framatome/Areva/Siemens agreed to pay 850 000 000 € compensation for the delay)
The Chinese EPR (Taishan) went operational in 2019 – but had already some trouble
https://www.controlglobal.com/home/blog/11291587/information-technology
How dare France use reliable technology to generate electricity without thinking about how bad it makes Germany look?
Am I the only one who saw Beyond nuclear reactor and thought they made it vegan?
Meanwhile, Germans shutting down last their reactors to burn coal and shit. Serious dick move.
Coming to your neighbourhood for 5 times the price and 20 years later. So 2070.
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Between this and the French people’s ability to get out and protest anti-worker gov’t decisions. I am very jealous.