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In fact France is pulling Europe down. France was 80% nuclear energy, but half their power plants are down or failing so they have to import power from Germany
by BonoboIO 4y ago
In fact France is pulling Europe down.
France was 80% nuclear energy, but half their power plants are down or failing so they have to import power from Germany (which is produced with natural gas).
France was a net exporter, now they need massively import power.
Germany could handle their power load, but not theirs + france.
- Galaxeblaffer 4y agoMaybe for a short while, all reactors will be back online before winter and they are planning to build 10 new plants. France's only problem is that they also have a crazy "green" movement trying to ruin their nuclear program and has successfully hindered modernization until now. All i all France's nuclear program has been an overwhelming success, and they've managed to cover almost 40% of their total energy consumption with nuclear compare that to the <10% that renewables cover in Germany and it's easy to see that it was much much faster building nuclear for green energy.