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>The ones from fifty years ago are great, imagine what we could do if the fucking NRC stopped adding such incredibly dumb and onerous requirements on any new pe

>The ones from fifty years ago are great, imagine what we could do if the fucking NRC stopped adding such incredibly dumb and onerous requirements on any new permits for new tech. I'm in France, where we should get ~78% of our electricity from nuclear. But half the reactors are down partly due to issues with the old reactors and maintenance problem (planned or not). https://nuclear-monitor.fr/#/mix https://nuclear-monitor.fr/#/mix So electricity is crazy expensive and the government just hold an emergency meetings (minutes ago) to try to find a solution before the winter. Some manufacturers (esp in the glass business) might go bankrupt as they cannot turn of their plants… I wish I could install solar panel on my roof (but I'm in Paris and the building is shared among by many owners so it isn't easy to get them on board).

DisjointedHunt 4y ago
You should ask the French politicians who passed a law to turn off ALL NUCLEAR PLANTS back in 2015: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/france-to-adopt-law-to-cut-nuclear-dependency-carbon-emissions#xj4y7vzkg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/france-to... No plan for a backup, those aged reactors more than served their time. The word you're looking for is "Incompetence". It is also poetic that the present fleet of French Nuclear plants was built to wean France off another energy crisis in the aftermath of the oil cartels moves. It seems history repeats itself for those who dont learn from it.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 4y ago
  No. Only Fessenheim has been closed and it accounts for a very small % of the power that currently lacking (1.8 GW at best vs 37.8 GW of the whole fleet). 34 reactors are off now + 4 partially down. You can't blame this on a single plant and politicians, especially when we can't build a working EPR [0], and when the old ones have defects (corrosion) that require them to be turned off in the middle of an energy crisis [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan... [1] https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220825-france-prolongs-shutdown-of-nuclear-reactors-over-corrosion-amid-rising-energy-prices https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220825-france-prolongs-...
  - DisjointedHunt 4y ago
    Excuse me? 1. Phase out all active reactors without a plan for extending their life 2. Reactors reach end of life gracefully. France decides to extend their life since they don’t have any backup energy sources. 3. Cry that 34 reactors with the same rough age and same design are down for preventive maintenance since they start showing signs of aging. Are you insane, stupid, malicious or just ignorant?

DisjointedHunt 4y ago

You should ask the French politicians who passed a law to turn off ALL NUCLEAR PLANTS back in 2015: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/france-to-adopt-law-to-cut-nuclear-dependency-carbon-emissions#xj4y7vzkg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/france-to... No plan for a backup, those aged reactors more than served their time. The word you're looking for is "Incompetence". It is also poetic that the present fleet of French Nuclear plants was built to wean France off another energy crisis in the aftermath of the oil cartels moves. It seems history repeats itself for those who dont learn from it.

rcMgD2BwE72F 4y ago
No. Only Fessenheim has been closed and it accounts for a very small % of the power that currently lacking (1.8 GW at best vs 37.8 GW of the whole fleet). 34 reactors are off now + 4 partially down. You can't blame this on a single plant and politicians, especially when we can't build a working EPR [0], and when the old ones have defects (corrosion) that require them to be turned off in the middle of an energy crisis [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan... [1] https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220825-france-prolongs-shutdown-of-nuclear-reactors-over-corrosion-amid-rising-energy-prices https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220825-france-prolongs-...
- DisjointedHunt 4y ago
  Excuse me? 1. Phase out all active reactors without a plan for extending their life 2. Reactors reach end of life gracefully. France decides to extend their life since they don’t have any backup energy sources. 3. Cry that 34 reactors with the same rough age and same design are down for preventive maintenance since they start showing signs of aging. Are you insane, stupid, malicious or just ignorant?