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It's not clean energy. https://www.citizen.org/article/nuclear-power-is-not-clean-or-green/ https://www.citizen.org/article/nuclear-power-is-not-clean-o... Al

by beders 4y ago

It's not clean energy. https://www.citizen.org/article/nuclear-power-is-not-clean-or-green/ https://www.citizen.org/article/nuclear-power-is-not-clean-o... Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Accide... It's actually another nail in the coffin of nuclear power seeing how France is desperate to buy electricity on the EU market, driving up prices for everyone, because half of their reactors are down.

jayparth 4y ago
What did you link us? Electrical failures that cost a couple of million? One exposure with 1/40 of the annual limit? Lol so dirty
_5ygc 4y ago
That doesn’t seem very logical. Why would they buy the stupidly expensive power from the market instead of running their own and selling to neighboring countries? It’s also high time the anti-nuclear crowd goes back to school to learn about statistics. I’m sure coal and gas closing at 1k€ are much better for the planet and the citizens of France /s
linksnapzz 4y ago
The reactors are down for maintenance. Nuclear still provides ~50% of France's power. As for "Public Citizen": Bernie Cohen at UPitt once offered to eat 5000mg of pure plutonium, if Ralph Nader would at the same time eat 5000mg of caffeine. Nader didn't take him up on the offer, which is just as well.