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by quotemstr 155 days ago
Looks pretty successful to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#/media...

If over half a country's electricity production is "irrelevant", I'm not sure what would be relevant.

Call it a disaster if you'd like. Lights turn on. Meltdowns aren't happening. The French pay 50% less than Germans per kWh.

You do you, but don't sit there and claim you're looking at the data. You can either interface with the real world or live in a fantasy universe and fail. Up to you.

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The electricity price in France is artificially kept low, it does not say much about the cost of nuclear. Globally renewables have overtaken coal in electricity production in the first half of 2025. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po Nuclear is not close to this.