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Re:France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5% by yoz-y on Monday August 13, 2018 @10:45AM (#17750463)
Sadly, our nuclear program is neither modern nor well run. Our nuclear power plants are old and some are at the limit of their expiration date. Bad management and lobbying has made a huge gap in the knowledge of power plant building and management and now the price of new construction skyrockets.

Just look at the years in which the reactors were constructed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors#Franc...

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Re:France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5% by yardie on Monday August 13, 2018 @12:59PM (#17751560)
From an American POV, your nuclear program is modern and well run. America's nuclear program is pretty embarrassing in comparison. Even older tech, well past expiration heavily reliant on government subsidies.
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