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a) there is a difference between electricity production and energy use. Typically countries don't use electricity for all energy needs. b) are you aware that h
by lispm 4y ago
a) there is a difference between electricity production and energy use. Typically countries don't use electricity for all energy needs.
b) are you aware that half of the nuclear fleet in France isn't online?
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-news/274261/controlled-blackouts-france-braces-for-winter-electricity-shortage https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-news/274261/controlled...
> It's clean, it's energy dense, and we can make a lot of it. France gets most of it's energy from Nuclear plants.
It's not clean, since the nuclear industry is also polluting the environment. It's not safe, since there is a risk of nuclear weapons, it's also limited (for example one needs water for the production of nuclear electricity - which in dry summers - like right now - can be a problem).
Worst:
Parts of the nuclear energy production is largely unsolved (nuclear waste storage, clean reprocessing, ...).
It's expensive, needs lots of government money and creates huge centralized structures.
- realusername 4y agoIronically, France has issues now because they spent around 120 billions on renewables with very few results. Had this money been spent on the nuclear grid, the gris would be in a much better state now.
- Ekaros 4y ago120 billion... So around 12 new plants at least? And probably more as they would have not screwed up most of those...
- realusername 4y agoYes, that's about half of the cost of the current nuclear grid spent for about 7% of the production.
- lispm 4y agoThey were not even able to finish one new reactor. The EPR is a decade late with massive cost increases. Why would anyone spend more money on that? https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edf-hopeful-end-sight-long-delayed-budget-busting-nuclear-plant-2022-06-16/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edf-hopeful-end-sigh... With more than half of the French nuclear fleet offline, nuclear in this energy crisis is just only contributing to the problems.