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>>14775331
>>14775698
>France
>they're nuclear chads
Lmao, delusional. They haven't built a working commercial reactor in 34 years. Construction on Flamanville 3 started in 2007, it's now grossly delayed, overbudget, and when finished it will only add 1.6 GW to the grid. Macron did announce they'll build 6-14 new reactors by 2050, but it's not nearly enough to replace all the ones that will by offline by then, since most of their 56 operational reactors were built in the 1980s.

EDF was over 40 billion euros in debt before it was nationalized recently. Now high renewables production fucks the French taxpayer even harder, as the plants would either be selling energy at a loss much of the time or operating in load-following mode, but both make them more uneconomical to run. Nuclear paypiggies.