We dropped new built nuclear power because it didn’t deliver. There’s no grand conspiracy.
In the early 2000s we invested both in the nascent renewable industry and the nuclear industry.
Given the outcome of Flamanville 3, Olkiluoto 3, Hinkley Point C, Vogtle and Virgil C. Summer it is abundantly clear that the nuclear industry doesn’t deliver.
Why spend hundreds of billions on dead-end nuclear subsidies to ”try one more time!!!”???
> We dropped nuclear because it didn’t deliver. There’s no grand conspiracy.
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Look at France again... It gave them unlimited cheap, clean energy and nuclear weapons, all at once. And then again, Germany, even if they went full renewables right now it would take hundreds of years to make up for the past pollution
> Given the outcome of Flamanville 3, Olkiluoto 3, Hinkley Point C, Vogtle and Virgil C. Summer it is abundantly clear that the nuclear industry doesn’t deliver.
Hm weird, we had 0 problem delivering back in the days when we really cared and had politicians with long term visions about their countries...
> Why spend hundreds of billions on dead-end subsidies to ”try one more time!!!”???
France generally export quite large amounts of electricity. But whenever a cold spell hits that export flow is reversed to imports and they have to start up local fossil gas and coal based production.
What they have done is that they have outsourced the management of their grid to their neighbors and rely on 35 GW of fossil based electricity production both inside France and their neighbors grids. Because France's nuclear power produces too much when no one wants the electricity and too little when it is actually needed.
Their neighbors are able to both absorb the cold spell which very likely hits them as well, their own grid as the French exports stops and they start exporting to France.
Have you heard of the Baumol effect?
Construction haven’t gotten meaningfully more efficient while salaries have increased to keep up with productive industries.
Looking at the actual data renewable subsidies are being phased out in the EU. Down to €61B in 2024 from peaking at €89B in 2020. They just aren’t needed anymore.
In the early 2000s we invested both in the nascent renewable industry and the nuclear industry.
Given the outcome of Flamanville 3, Olkiluoto 3, Hinkley Point C, Vogtle and Virgil C. Summer it is abundantly clear that the nuclear industry doesn’t deliver.
Why spend hundreds of billions on dead-end nuclear subsidies to ”try one more time!!!”???