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Which 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
by Retric 2y ago
Which 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.