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So you won't mind if I prefer (some of) my tax dollars go to subsiding reliable energy production.

If safe is your metric, nuclear power kills fewer people than roof top solar.

Solar/wind made reliable is still cheaper than new nuclear (which also requires some add-ons for reliability/leveling.)

yeah, works great for germany compared to france :) new nuclear price is skill/regulatory issue...

also great fosil things happening with backup plants

At the current cost in France for building a new nuclear power plant, renewables would be much cheaper. The existence of legacy plants there doesn't change this. Realize also that much of the cost of those plants was off the books, involving subsidized financing. That a government can fund something at lower interest rates doesn't mean that isn't a subsidy; it's just that the subsidy is concealed.

Yeah, because all the costs on coal and renewables is priced. All the externalities for enviroment and health of the people, price of putting the land back together and recycling...

I am very pro nuclear :)

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