> Or they were—costs are so high now that we don‘t even build plants anymore.
That's factually wrong. France has a program of nuclear building. We don't build a lot of plants in Europe, but we do.
That's factually wrong. France has a program of nuclear building. We don't build a lot of plants in Europe, but we do.
Even in France the trend visible in other European countries will happen: Wind, solar combined with large-scale batteries or pumped storage hydropower. Those are more simple to construct with less resistance from today's public.
It is clear after three EPR projects have massively overrun in a row that Areva/EDF can't do it, and when faced by paying a foreign company to do it they will choose solar and wind instead.