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0 pointsphicoh3y ago0 comments

This summer, France has been importing significant amounts of electricity from countries that burn gas or coal. You don't do that if you have plenty of nuclear power available.

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kennend33y ago

Re-read what i wrote.. if you know that water levels will be low and you purposely idle your reactors annually.. then you do import power.

It looks like this is NOT a new problem (from 2016) https://www.economist.com/business/2016/12/01/frances-nuclea...

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