> We know the French model works really well
It works so "well" that the French taxpayer will have to pay the UK so they can deliver their guaranteed energy prices the over-due and over budget reactor they desperately try to finish will generate.
It's so fantastic that every summer they have to buy dirty coal energy from Germany because their rivers get too hot and every winter because...it's too cold and their ageing fleet is breaking down all the time.
The success is so staggering that they plan to reduce their fleet by 50% until 2030 and replace that with renewable energy.
Hooray...
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Edit: since the Astro-Turf reached me and I can't reply anymore due to downvotes, here are the answers to Bayart:
> I don't down where you get that broadly France relies on German coal in the summer and winter.
Why do you try to lie about something everybody can google. This is the first result for "France river hot":
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-electricity-heatwa...
> Pretty much the entirety of the problems we've had with the EPR program has to do stopping building nuclear power plants for decades and losing the associated skill-set and industrial base.
Weird because EPR didn't stop building. They just stopped building in France so this can't be right. Also: the reactors currently still under construction started construction when all the people from the peak construction times where still there. They still can't manage to build on budget or on time. Not even close.
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@corban1:
Only because Germany doesn't hide their subsidies doesn't mean that the French taxpayer is not paying for their ageing fleet (or overpriced projects abroad) with their taxes...
Also the fact that coal is an important job motor in troubled regions of Germany which is why it's still there (but is being phased out completely soon).
It works so "well" that the French taxpayer will have to pay the UK so they can deliver their guaranteed energy prices the over-due and over budget reactor they desperately try to finish will generate.
It's so fantastic that every summer they have to buy dirty coal energy from Germany because their rivers get too hot and every winter because...it's too cold and their ageing fleet is breaking down all the time.
The success is so staggering that they plan to reduce their fleet by 50% until 2030 and replace that with renewable energy.
Hooray...
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Edit: since the Astro-Turf reached me and I can't reply anymore due to downvotes, here are the answers to Bayart:
> I don't down where you get that broadly France relies on German coal in the summer and winter.
Why do you try to lie about something everybody can google. This is the first result for "France river hot":
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-electricity-heatwa...
> Pretty much the entirety of the problems we've had with the EPR program has to do stopping building nuclear power plants for decades and losing the associated skill-set and industrial base.
Weird because EPR didn't stop building. They just stopped building in France so this can't be right. Also: the reactors currently still under construction started construction when all the people from the peak construction times where still there. They still can't manage to build on budget or on time. Not even close.
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@corban1:
Only because Germany doesn't hide their subsidies doesn't mean that the French taxpayer is not paying for their ageing fleet (or overpriced projects abroad) with their taxes...
Also the fact that coal is an important job motor in troubled regions of Germany which is why it's still there (but is being phased out completely soon).