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France covered that by importing power from the rest of Europe. Taiwan doesn’t have that option as an island whose closest friendly neighbor is hundreds of kilo
by bobthepanda 2y ago
France covered that by importing power from the rest of Europe. Taiwan doesn’t have that option as an island whose closest friendly neighbor is hundreds of kilometers away.
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- Retric 2y agoWhich suggests ramping up nuclear would be problematic in the long term for them. At the beginning you can get great uptime but eventually you face years like this: https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/wnisr2022-figure28_nuke_france_dailyunavailabilities2021.pdf https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/wnisr2022-figure2...
- bobthepanda 2y agoThat’s probably more of an artefact of France building exact copies of the same design within a relatively short timeframe (ten years) so they all shared the exact same design flaws and started showing their age at the same time
- Retric 2y agoThus ‘ramping up’ is a problem. If they want to replace 5% of their electric grid per decade with nuclear then it’s not an issue but that’s not going to solve short term issues. Go a lot faster and they trade short term problems for longer term issues.