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After years of wrangling, France has set out a new energy law that slashes its wind and solar power targets and drops a mandate for state-run energy provider EDF to shut down nuclear plants.
France is still quite dependent on nuclear power and I’d be surprised if getting rid of it wouldn’t be very expensive and difficult for them despite the relative attractiveness of solar power when starting from scratch.
France also has some of the cheapest power in the world, at the lowest CO2 output, specifically BECAUSE they run a high percentage of nuclear.
It’s not really cheap, it’s subsidised