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I don't know which countries you're talking about, but in France 'renewable' energies are heavily subsided,

• eru 6y ago
  Cycomanic never said renewables don't get any subsidies. And that assumption is not needed for their argument. The comment you are replying to merely said that decades of subsidizing nuclear didn't remove technical issues. And perhaps you can say the comment implied that the technical issues with renewables did mostly go away, without making any comment on whether renewables got any subsidies and on whether they helped or hindered. (I would even go so far to argue that most of nuclear's remaining technical issues are from continued government meddling. But that's down to public opinion that wants government control of nuclear power. In places like eg Germany, for a long time the government was much more pro-nuclear than the population.)