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France itself is saying it shouldn't build a new round of of nuclear power plants and instead should invest in renewables & storage (and would save money and r
by dv_dt 7y ago
France itself is saying it shouldn't build a new round of of nuclear power plants and instead should invest in renewables & storage (and would save money and risk) going that route.
If you look at the timeline and frequent schedule overruns of nuclear plants we can't build them fast enough in the US to make a critical difference at this point. If you look at China without many of the supposed anti-nuclear legal deterrents, their projects were getting more and more overrun vs estimates and they halted all new plants except for a couple plants of their own design. (and those obviously have self-development motivations). They're trying to finish their initial round of plants right now and likely have come to a similar conclusion of too slow, too expensive vs renewables.
- Robotbeat 7y agoFrance is not immune to the social forces impacting the rest of the world.
- dv_dt 7y agoI assert is more of a financial & time to carbon reduction question: France calculates it would save $45B by going to renewable energy instead of replacing aging nuclear power plants with new ones. https://futurism.com/the-byte/nuclear-plants-renewable-energy-france https://futurism.com/the-byte/nuclear-plants-renewable-energ...