• Waryle@jlai.lu
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    6 months ago

    Uranium price has being multiplied by 7 in 2007, and France’s electricity, which were 70-80% nuclear at the time, didn’t see any increase in price. Uranium price is definitely not driving electricity price, because nuclear use so little resources and fuel, that’s one of its main appeal.

    And 60+ years of french nuclear produced a 15 meters-wide cube of high level waste. This is what it looks like . Does that looks like some unsolvable issue to you?

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        6 months ago

        You know what uses even less fuel and produces even less waste

        That’s false, solar and wind power consume considerably more resources than nuclear and therefore produce considerably more waste than nuclear power.

        What’s more, because of their low load factor and intermittency, they require oversized capacity, storage devices and redundancy, further increasing their footprint.

        at the same or cheaper cost

        Only if you don’t account for oversizing the capacity, the storage and redundancy induced by the wide adoption of solar and wind power.

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      France’s electricity, which were 70-80% nuclear at the time, didn’t see any increase in price.

      Yes, because the government decided they couldn’t raise the price.

      Électricité de France (EDF) – the country’s main electricity generation and distribution company – manages the country’s 56 power reactors.[5] EDF is fully owned by the French Government.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

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        The government does not decide for the cost of producing nuclear electricity, which has barely changed that year.