Comment by ViewTrick1002

This ignores that the French have massively underinvested in the replacement for the nuclear fleet, and the maintenance of the existing one.

Should we all pretend that half the French nuclear fleet was not offline at the height of the energy crisis? A large portion of the european energy crisis came from the French nuclear power not delivering.

A large renewable buildout should be ongoing in France but wasting money on dead-end subsidies for new built nuclear power seems to be what the French people and politicans wants.

We're seeing a huge number of closures coming in the next decades and the politicians can't even agree on the bonkers large subsidy program for the first 6 EPR2 reactors. Maybe targetting some new power on the grid by 2040? If we're lucky with the construction timeline, at a cool cost of ~20 cents per kWh excluding subsidies.