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   kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 03:22:38 JST kravietz 🦇
   #France EDF wants to build a fleet of #nuclear reactors in France and other European countries to benefit from economies of scale:
   
   * 🇬🇧: 2 EPRs under construction + 2 planned EPRs + discussions for SMRs
   * 🇸🇪: discussions for EPRs and SMRs
   * 🇳🇱: discussions for 2 EPRs and SMRs
   * 🇵🇱: bid for 6 EPRs (+ SMRs)
   * 🇨🇿: offer for 1 EPR1200 + discussions for 3 EPR1200 + SMRs
   * 🇸🇰: discussions for 1 EPR 1200 and SMRs
   * 🇸🇮: discussions for 1 EPR 1200
   * 🇧🇬: discussions for 2 EPR 1200
   * 🇫🇮: 1 active EPR + 2 EPRs and SMRs under discussion
   * 🇫🇷: 1 EPR in start-up phase + 6 EPR2 under study + 8 EPR2 in option + SMR programme under development
   
   Source: https://twitter.com/why_the_west/status/172...
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     kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 03:22:41 JST kravietz 🦇

     in reply to

     • AbolishBorderControlsNow

     @MattMastodon

     Renewables could be online quicker and cheaper.

     Germany has the Europe’s largest installed capacity in #renewables. Yet, it runs on coal and gas today, plus some imports from #nuclear France:

     https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE

     Germany’s CO2 emissions intensity right now is nearly 10x worse than France, cost of electricity in Germany is 3x higher than in France, and they had to restart coal mines after Russian pipeline was severed. There’s a simple explanation for that: for most of the time renewables don’t produce electricity, but people want 24/7 supply.

     And where are we going to get fuel for them, from Russia?

     There’s like 30 countries on the global uranium market and it’s much easier to supply nuclear power plants: a single nuclear power plant consumes maybe 100 tons of uranium fuel per year. That’s around how much a single wind turbine weights, including concrete base, the tower and the blades, and you need hundreds of turbines along with hundreds of MWh in batteries to replace a single plant. In total, renewables consume 300x more mined resources (metals, concrete) than nuclear per MWh of electricity produced.

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     AbolishBorderControlsNow (mattmastodon@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 03:22:42 JST AbolishBorderControlsNow

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     @kravietz

     Why is the EU so addicted to bad energy policy. First a gas pipeline from Russia now nuclear power stations.

     Renewables could be online quicker and cheaper. And where are we going to get fuel for them, from Russia?

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