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France’s nuclear fleet gives it one of the world’s lowest-carbon electricity grids
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Have you read about the Paks NPP? Not throttled, shut down. They even tried sinking barges in the Danube to raise levels enough to keep it going.
And yet, despite that, France still has some of the cleanest electricity in the world with prices in line with the rest of Europe and exported about 10TWhrs of electricity during July.
I agree that downtime is bad, but I don't think abandoning nuclear to go all in on solar which has a minimum downtime of 50% or wind which has extended periods of <10% is a solution to that. Given that we need electrification to replace fossil fuels in transport and heating over the next few decades to prevent catastrophic climate change, the only reasonable course IMO is to build out as much as possible of nuclear and renewables.
Nuclear is not clean energy. Building new reactors makes zero sense given the cost compared to renewables.
Cool map though what's that website?
And buying fuel roads from Russia, which makes it hard to sanction that part...