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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by natmaka on Saturday September 13, 2025 @10:59AM (#45232623)
During the past 25 years there were projects aiming at building industrial nuclear reactors. They all ended badly (canceled, way over budget or delay...).
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by mpweiher on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:33PM (#45233806)
That's completely false.

The Konvois in Germany were extremely successful.

France built 50+ reactors in 15 years from a standing start.

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by natmaka on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:43PM (#45233879)
I wrote "During the past 25 years"

Please describe any nuclear reactor which was successfully built in France or Germany during the past 25 years.

France: https://sites.google.com/view/electricitedefrance/messmer-pl...

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by mpweiher on Saturday September 13, 2025 @03:46PM (#45234774)
Germany didn't build any.

France built hardly any.

And that's the complete answer: we know how to build nuclear reactors quickly and cheaply.

Building only very few of different novel designs while slowly (or quickly) losing the industrial base to do so, for example by making it illegal to build more (or at all) is exactly how you don't do it.

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by ViewTrick1002 on Saturday September 13, 2025 @03:56PM (#45234833)
The EPR2 program is in absolute shambles.

Currently they can’t even agree on how to fund the absolutely insanely bonkers subsidies.

Now targeting investment decision in H2 2026… And the French government just fell because they are underwater in debt and have a spending problem which they can’t agree on how to fix.

A massive handout to the dead end nuclear industry sounds like the perfect solution!

But nuclear is fast to build, if we ignore all modern western examples!

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by looofooo0 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:38AM (#45258413)
Just because in Germany the bill was footed by the consumer and geopolitical dependcies (Russia) does not make its CO2 free electricity cheaper. It also still lacks behind France in CO2 emission.
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by ViewTrick1002 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:32AM (#45260418)
This argument is like nuclear power was a waste for France in the 1980s because they weren't done removing all oil from their grid.

As per recent French nuclear construction they are on a path of replacing it with renewables because it is horrifically expensive and they are unable to finance new construction.

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by looofooo0 on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:34AM (#45298572)
My argument is that german electricity is way more expensive then the french. But you are right npp is overregulated and should be build in convoys to manage cost.