Comment by epolanski
9 days ago
Me too I also dislike the cherry picked and wrongly built narrative, see the nuclear one.
> In contrast, France ran from the past towards the future, overcoming public fears of nuclear disasters, now getting 70% of its electricity from nuclear power.
France has put a single reactor online in the last 25 years, it has closed reactors and cancelled building new ones for some time.
The problem has always been financial with other sources becoming simply cheaper, more competitive and easier/quicker to put online.
To be fair, the reason behind this was the arguably poor decision decades ago to overbuild reactor capacity.
France sells energy to it's neighbors.