Posted on 02/19/2020 6:35:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Wednesday that the Fessenheim nuclear reactor, on the border with Germany, will be shut down at the end of June, with one of its reactors to be closed this weekend.
A statement on Wednesday called the decision “the first phase” of France's energy strategy set out in 2018 by President Emmanuel Macron. The plan calls for a re-balancing of nuclear-produced energy and electricity derived from renewable sources. Coal plants are to be closed by 2022 to reduce greenhouse gases, the statement said.
Reactor No. 1 will be halted on Saturday and the entire complex will come to a halt on June 30, the statement said.
Germany has long called for the plant, France's oldest, to be shut down. It is the first nuclear complex to be closed under Macron's plan.
France depends more on nuclear energy than any other country, getting about three-quarters of its electricity from the plants. Macron said in 2018, outlining France's energy strategy for the next 30 years, that 14 nuclear reactors out of the 58 now running at 19 plants would be shut down by 2035.
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Can you say , Toxic Lung Killing Candles
“Germany has long called for the plant, France’s oldest, to be shut down.”
Germany...still kicking France’s butt.
Great! So then let's shut down some plants that DON'T produce CO2, as well. There is a name for a strategy such as this: "Dumber than a box of rocks". If you believe that CO2 needs to be reduced, and have any intelligence at all, you would know that nuclear electricity is THE ONLY known technology that can achieve that in the near term. Forced shut down of nuclear plants is simply stupid.
Well, there may be another side to this. The French tend to attribute an action to another motivator than what actually prompted it.
The Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant they’re shutting down began construction in 1970 and is based on an even older design. It’s never been rebuilt, and it’s of a similar tech and development level as the ill-fated Fukushima plant. It’s had increasingly worrying safety incidents in the last decade-plus. The whole thing is more than fifty years old.
They could be going ahead with saying that they’re doing this to “save da erf” and move to more greenie-endorsed methods while *really* shutting the thing down before something bad happens, perhaps to replace it with a more modern, safer design later when “oh, the solar panels and wind farms didn’t work.” Most commercial reactors of similar age and design have already been decommissioned or are winding down their lives here in the US.
nope germany is closing all its power plats that are not “renewable” and will become a power without power, while france is starting down that road as well - both in race to see which can become a 7th century islamic state first
I’ve seen amazing video of this plant. Peaceful tranquility on the French side of the river with a man quietly fishing. A angry mob of 10,000 protesters on the German side.
Vladimir will be very pleased ...
hes got his own 7th century islamic problems
Most of the plants are already past the point of staying in service. They will eventually be replaced by Generation IV reactors in the next 35 years.
Could those 10,000 lemings simultaneously jump in the river to tsunami the plant?
It’s their only hope.
Well said and spot on. Nuclear power is the best green energy available. To not use nuclear power for all electricity production is to not be serious about reducing carbon dioxide production.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
- British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey
France will FREEZE in the DARK before it’s over with, to placate their gods of the environment. Will serve them right.
Scotland says they plan to use pure renewable energy. I don’t think Scotland is the same as everywhere though.
The United States consumes 100 times the amount of coal as they do Uranium
Does Scotland say what they will use for “pure renewable energy” when the sun don’t shine (like all winter), and the wind don’t blow (like all summer)?
That’s my question. Do they have geothermal? Hydroelectric?
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