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FYI France doesn't have any plan for fission nuclear in its future – (even reduced to 50% of current production, which seems to be the currently professed plan
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
FYI France doesn't have any plan for fission nuclear in its future –
(even reduced to 50% of current production, which seems to be the currently professed plan^W wishful thinking)
– unless of course it's being for now kept as a complete secret from the general population.
But we've pretty much reached the moment when new reactors have to start to be MASSIVELY built to start replacing the aging ones in a decade or so (it takes a long time to build a nuclear reactor !), so again, I doubt that there actually IS a plan out there.
(A third possibility is that they are planning to keep the current reactors working waaay past their expected life duration, which is extremely reckless, and is certain to one day blow up in an international scandal, hopefully only metaphorically.)
- rjsw 6y agoEDF is building the new reactors in the UK so it is retaining experience in how to do it.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoThe clusterfuck that is Le Creusot (and in parallel Kobe Steel !) begs to differ…
- epistasis 6y agoThere's also Flamanville in France, which has been a complete disaster when it comes to construction. As well as one project in Finland. Did EDF learn anything from the two EPR that were built in China? Or was that just a pure sale of the design?