About 1/2 of nuclear power plants in France are down because of maintenance and/or repairs[1][2]:
> France's nuclear fleet has been hit by unprecedented outages this winter with half of its 56 reactors currently unavailable.
This is happening in a country where most people use electric heating[3] while the temperatures dropped a bit recently (minimal temperatures are mostly below zero centigrade, while max. doesn't go over 10 C)[4]. Moreover the ongoing Russian war doesn't exactly help here.
> France's nuclear fleet has been hit by unprecedented outages this winter with half of its 56 reactors currently unavailable.
This is happening in a country where most people use electric heating[3] while the temperatures dropped a bit recently (minimal temperatures are mostly below zero centigrade, while max. doesn't go over 10 C)[4]. Moreover the ongoing Russian war doesn't exactly help here.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/edf-extend-civaux-nuc... [2] https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/market-insigh... [3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1086485/types-heater-hou... [4] https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/forecastmaps?LA...