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Yet, France consistently produces half of Germany's CO2 per capita: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...
I would consider that a giant success of nuclear energy.
> A comparable number to Denmark that has almost no hydro power.
Denmark is not relevant - they import giant majority of their energy. Right now they barely produce at all: https://i.imgur.com/69SI5J9.png
> Costs aren't the only problem, new nuclear reactors simply cannot be build fast enough to counteract the climate crisis.
They could be build fast enough if we did it _seriously_, and not as vanity projects.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2027347/south-korea-s... Is the suggestion to just import the energy?
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Yet, France consistently produces half of Germany's CO2 per capita: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...
I would consider that a giant success of nuclear energy.
> A comparable number to Denmark that has almost no hydro power.
Denmark is not relevant - they import giant majority of their energy. Right now they barely produce at all: https://i.imgur.com/69SI5J9.png
> Costs aren't the only problem, new nuclear reactors simply cannot be build fast enough to counteract the climate crisis.
They could be build fast enough if we did it _seriously_, and not as vanity projects.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2027347/south-korea-s... Is the suggestion to just import the energy?