Amazing that people shit on France when the have been providing and exporting nuclear energy for 40 years. Saying that nuclear plants don't work is just idiotic when at any point you can look at CO2 intensity and France is always among the very best, and the best for a country so industrialized. And not just in the last 5 years, but the last 30 years.

And the only reason nuclear plants in France have been down this year, is because as always in the last 30 years, the French Left attempted to kill nuclear and starting in 2015 started de-prioritizing it.

And those plans will soon be online when the maintenance is done and then continue to provide green energy for decades.

The failure in France was to try to get away from nuclear and stop building new plants. Instead starting to use more and more gas.

France had amazingly advanced nuclear plants ready for to be built in large numbers to secure the future. But guess what happen, the French Left (with Greens) killed these programs.

French nuclear works fine, and has been for 40 years. Had other countries acted like France we would be in a much better situation now.

And I for one would prefer some temporarily offline plants rather then breathing lots and lots of coal dust.