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.

  • Asinus@feddit.orgEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    You speak of lies and misinterpration and yet you say waste is a non-issue. And even low-level radiation waste (which is a lot of material if you tear down the whole plant at some point) has to be dealt with. Thats expensive and that’s part of the cost of nuclear energy. Even if the operators will try to push that to the taxpayer.

    But yes, they are transparent. So much so, that even the operators publish lists of reasons about why they don’t want to build new plants or continue to run the existing ones:

    German source