Something's Rotten with French Nuclear

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leonidasrup · 2026-03 · Recommendation

I would really recommend listening to discussion with Mark Nelson, managing director of Radiant Energy Group, about the state of the French nuclear power industry. "Something's Rotten with French Nuclear" [VIDEO]

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mpweiher · 2025-09 · Reference

I never disputed that it's a fact that China currently builds more renewables than nuclear. I said it is irrelevant . Those are different things. It's also not "way" more...unless you don't understand the irrelevance of nameplate capacity with intermittent renewables. China is also currently seeing the bottom drop out of their renewables industry, with over a third of the workforce laid off and massive drops in installs and production due to a reduction in subsidies. The EPR2 projects could not even have started in 2022, because he law that prohibits increasing nuclear capacity beyond the currently installed 63.2GW was only repealed in March 2023. And yes, reversing course so massively takes a little while, particularly when they still have to deal with a lot of the fallout of the failed "soft exit" policy. As to site selection: you disputed, I showed. Then you change the subject. The interviewee was the president of the French parliament, and he is quite specific. And he is not the only source, this is really well known...unless you bury your head in the sand. Here's a long look: [VIDEO]

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natmaka · 2025-09 · Reference

> China currently builds more renewables than nuclear. I said it is irrelevant. Those are different things No: nuclear and renewables are electricity-generating equipment types, and all the debate is about the proportion of renewables and nuclear in the final system. Seeing them as disconnected (in different universes) is not even funny. [LINK] > unless you don't understand the irrelevance of nameplate capacity with intermittent renewables. This perspective dates back a time when transporting electricity was expensive (lines, losses...), storing it also was expensive ( ), fossil fuels and nuclear were the only way to obtain gridpower... all this is obsolete. Explanations: [LINK] > China is also currently seeing the bottom drop out of their renewables industry Source? (I lived in China from mid-2017 to mid-2025) The renewables industry there is, as in nearly every nation, in much better state than nearly any other one. > The EPR2 projects could not even have started in 2022, because he law that prohibits increasing nuclear capacity beyond the currently installed 63.2GW was only repealed in March 2023 Nope. This law stated about active production capacity, and never forbade any reactor-building project. The very first EPR (Flamanville-3) project was running while this law was instated (2015) and did not stop. It simply forbade it to start without other reactor with at least a total equivalent powerplate value to be shutdown. Recent news: [LINK] > they still have to deal with a

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