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by nebalee 4y ago
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“The closing dates are determined by law and the licenses to operate the power plants end on those dates. That has been established for a long time and we have been preparing for that for a long time.”
The government did ask Engie in July to see whether both reactors could possibly continue for a few more months to bridge the difficult winter, but according to the French energy group, that is unfeasible both technically and in terms of safety.
- koheripbal 4y agoGermany tried to make the exact same claim this year about their three remaining plants - but the nuclear engineers running the plants were brave enough to say the gov't was lying. ...not that it mattered because the German gov't just doubled down on closing those plants regardless. There is no technical reason they could not have extended their shutdown plans. This is just an unfortunate combination of bureaucratic lethargy and anti-nuclear ideologues.
- nebalee 4y ago> but the nuclear engineers running the plants were brave enough to say the gov't was lying can you provide a link to that?
- panick21_ 4y agoIf you only have governments that create regulation that make it impossible to operate then things are impossible to operate.