| > this not dust escaping during normal operation Indeed, however past accidents now forbid to claim that "this dust will never wander around, everything is under control". > If they were all N4 they would have been kept running and had a rolling program of repairs. Nope, as the defect was considered (by EDF itself, the company owning and operating it, chief of the nuclear industry in France, and AFAIK experts agreed) as too dangerous for the reactor to continue to operate. > your desire to have a heterogeneous fleet of reactors I don't desire any reactor. I'm only pointing out a major dilemma intrinsic to the "nuclear" approach. > nobody dies due to the lack of electricity I explained why a mix of renewables cannot lead to such ordeal, which was induced in Japan by the decision to produce electricity thanks to nuclear reactors and the decision to shut them off after the Fukushima accident. Iberian blackout: nobody knows the cause for sure, experts are analyzing the event. |