Tangentially related: Apparently there was a major accident in a Russian nuclear waste reprocessing / vitrification plant in early October.…
EdF to be butchered - "Freibankfleisch" available: http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/11/french-government-mulls-spinning-off-edf-s-nuclear-business.html https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/edf-faces-split-to-avert-financial-disaster-b02gh0mm3 THIS is the reason why they can't be closed now: they…
Fact: From 2015 to 2016 the atom power production was down by 7.9%, the atom's share in national power production…
If costs would matter there wouldn't be any atom bomb and no atom power. No colonies and no arms industry.…
The assumption that solar and wind will enjoy despatch priority over nuclear during the slow French nuclear rundown is unsound.…
What the technical limitations of the nuclear ramp rate are, is not really the main issue methinks. PV and wind…
French nuclear energy is only cheap because the state is assuming massive decommissioning costs and constantly shoving money into EDF…
“Why did Germany replace FITs with auctions if not to bring down costs?” Answer: Mainly pressure from the EU.
From climate perspective, France should keep its nuclear fleet. French power generation emissions are 1/5 of Germany's. As Craig observed,…
The atom power plant in Fessenheim is supposed to be replaced with a big battery factory. If the EPR in…