Thanks! I always thought it is due to people's safety concerns here instead of economic reasons. After all, nuclear plant is quite 'popular' in Europe, and China too these days.
Thanks! I always thought it is due to people's safety concerns here instead of economic reasons. After all, nuclear plant is quite 'popular' in Europe, and China too these days.
We built a lot of nuclear back in the 70s and 80s which we still rely on with long term operation upgrades.
For modern nuclear power the only nuclear reactor under construction in France is Flamanville 3 which is 6x over budget and 12 years late on a 6 year construction timeline.
Hinkley Point C in the UK is in a similar quagmire and Olkiluoto 3 finally got finished last year after a near 20 year construction timeline.
Politically there's some noise from conservative politicians who can't hold a climate change denial position anymore, but still need to be contrarians.
The problem is the horrendous economics.
It’s not popular in Europe at all.
France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy.
For Europe overall is 22%.
That French capacity was largely built a long time ago, though. Only a couple of nuclear plants have been built on Europe in the last decade, and they've generally overrun _horribly_ on costs.