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hilios | 5 months ago

>France built 40 nuclear reactors in a decade. Here’s how they did it, and how the world can follow their lead today.

Today France takes more than a decade to build a single reactor (Flamanville 3) and the debts incurred nationalizing EDF, are now causing serious concerns about the whole nation defaulting. As clean and safe as nuclear power might be, I think the world will be fine not following that example.

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thrance|5 months ago

Flammanville is a prototype, and much of the talent that was used to mass-produce reactors is long gone to time. The dumb thing now that Flammanville is finished would be to not follow up on it.

fulafel|5 months ago

The other early EPR project, OL3, took 18 years to build.

ViewTrick1002|5 months ago

Or you know just just accept the sunk cost instead of wasting another €100-200B on subsidies for the EPR2 program?

James_K|5 months ago

Perhaps you should read beyond the first sentence.

medlazik|5 months ago

What's causing "serious concerns about the whole nation defaulting" is billionaires not paying enough taxes, not taking back 15% of what was ours in the first place...