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> Europe still produces more than 20% of its electric power from nuclear plants. That's technically true, but France's representation is completely outsized in
by masklinn 2y ago
> Europe still produces more than 20% of its electric power from nuclear plants.
That's technically true, but France's representation is completely outsized in that, as the one country which went hard on nuclear it's got more than half the nuclear production of the continent: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Nuclear_energy_statistics https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
And that's being down 25% from its historical peaks because a significant fraction of the park was offline for unscheduled maintenance due to corrosion issues (I believe the park's been ramping back up and should be back to full).
IIRC France is the number 3 nuclear electricity producer on the planet behind the US and China.