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Disclaimer I haven't researched the two points I'm going to make, they are just things I've heard from people around me. 1. Nuclear power also never produced a
by nilsherzig 2y ago
Disclaimer I haven't researched the two points I'm going to make, they are just things I've heard from people around me.
1. Nuclear power also never produced a profit in Germany / had to be subsidized the entire time.
2. France has some weird agreements with their former colonies in africa allowing them to basically steal the resources needed to make atomic energy at their scale viable.
Booth points might be partly wrong, but could be worth looking into
- vladvasiliu 2y agoI don't know about your first point, but the second doesn't seem correct. Here's a Le Monde article with details on where the Uranium comes from: https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/03/a-quel-point-la-france-est-elle-dependante-de-l-uranium-nigerien_6184374_4355770.html https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/03/a-qu... It's in French, but thre's a graph showing the distribution which should be legible. TLDR: a good chunk (~20%) comes from a former colony (Niger), but it's not the largest. Other main suppliers have not been French colonies.