Summary

France’s Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor, its most powerful at 1,600 MW, was connected to the grid on December 21 after 17 years of construction plagued by delays and budget overruns.

The European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), designed to boost nuclear energy post-Chernobyl, is 12 years behind schedule and cost €13.2 billion, quadruple initial estimates.

President Macron hailed the launch as a key step for low-carbon energy and energy security.

Nuclear power, which supplies 60% of France’s electricity, is central to Macron’s plan for a “nuclear renaissance.”

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        131 day ago

        The only miscalculation of the cost by -four times- was due to protest of anti nuclear protestors, according to you?

        Source pls?

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          If you are paid $1 an hour and it takes 6 hours that is $6

          If you work 12 hours that is $12

          12>6

          The problem with nuclear is that as a bombing target it has a greater impact than a solar farm. Having said that it was once a goal for every Canadian to have a reactor in their basement

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            I was reacting to what /u/DaviddoesLemmy and /u/ryedaft were saying.

            You need to take the two parent posts in consideration for my argument.