Re:Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
by pfdietz on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:58PM
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I thought the political goal was maintaining nuclear as high as 50%.
Re:Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
by BlueTemplar on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:53AM
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Political promises are rarely so detailed.
Though that sarcasm of mine is slightly outdated, a new promise (exploiting the recent high energy prices) is indeed to build some new reactors, postponing the previous promise of reaching 50% (from the current 75%) from 2025 to 2035 :
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Macron-says-Fran...
(Because it's not like the politicians aren't aware of these issues, it's just that it's rarely politically convenient to raise them.)
In other unrelated news, safely maintaining the current nuclear electric power would have required a massive buildup starting 10 years ago (to replace the reactors that are currently arriving at the end of their life).