France is one of the European countries facing an increase from 85 Euros to 1000 Euros in electricity this month due to Russia cutting their gas supplies. State-owned EDF will open 32 of 56 nuclear reactors by winter. The reactors were allegedly shut down over maintenance or repair. There will likely be a problem with the Left and complaints about nuclear power, including waste handling.
The French government will also absorb some of the electricity costs in households.
The French government still wants citizens to cut their electricity use by 10% as a safeguard. There will be restrictions, but they plan to avoid any blackouts or rationing.
Gas is used in part for electricity.
France and Germany went temporarily back to coal earlier this year in desperation. It would be better if they had a logical plan for going to alternative energy. The plan should include a prototype in a city or town, waste removal, storage, and so on.
The World Economic Forum and the Left hate nuclear power, although it is the cleanest energy and could get us to net zero emissions. We’ll see how this goes over.
The people involved want you to believe the waste problem can’t be handled. It’s not true. There are several options, such as turning the waste into glass or burying it temporarily or permanently. However, it’s valuable energy that can later be extracted which causes people to balk when permanent waste removal is mentioned. Then you have idiots who intervene. The problem is political, not scientific. People can’t agree, so it’s easier to say they can’t dispose of the waste.
Meanwhile, France admits it’s in a “slight” recession.
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One would think they would have thought this through before shutting down their own energy-producing plants and leveling sanctions on Russia.
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In the 1970s the climate idiots were glow in the dark morons. One of the greatest mistakes USA made was allowing these morons to stop expansion of nuclear power. US Navy has run over 60 years on nuclear power name me on death??????
At least France has thje Plants built and available for use. If Liberals don’t like Nuclear Power they live in the Cold and the Dark.
I personally think that anyone who is a democrat or affiliated with the democrat party should be forced to cut their energy usage by 95%…..they claim there is GLOBULL WARMING / CLIMATE change going on and that humans are responsible for it, soooo make them put their money where their mouths are…let them set the example for the rest of us if it is so good for all of us….and let’s see how they do….LOL….ask that EV car driver who’s battery ran out and a local group of coal plant people had to push the toy car to the plant guard shack to plug it in to charge on all that GOOD COAL FIRED ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and after sitting mothballed for years, they are going to just bing and start right up, no problems at all and be online in a few days.
Man grab the popcorn this one’s gonna be a doozy.
Absolutely correct. But science verse leftist are so programmed to be reflexively nuclear adverse they cannot process the facts. I doubt France can restart mothballed reactors in less than 6 months. There is a lot involved, including refueling if they had been fully prepped for “storage”.
Leftists do seem to like the idea of fusion reactors. But they fail to note that it takes a large fission reactor (today’s nuclear reactors) to power up a fusion machine and get it started. It takes a HUGE amount of power to run the huge cryogenic magnets and the massive lasers needed to start fusion. This is one of the shortcomings that was a topic when I worked on the LLNL TMX fusion experiment for two years in 1983. We had direct grid tap of 600k volt power available, and we had to get permission to use it from the power company (they had to be at a low usage point).
They haven’t been able to keep a sustained fusion reaction going long enough to even get out at least as much energy as they have put into it ……
Nuclear Fusion is complex, but so was Nuclear Fission and Going to the Moon. The only clean and reliable energy we have today is Nuclear Fission. The Traitor Joe Team plan is to deprive America of energy so we don’t rebuild our manufacturing economy and the Middle Class.