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FBaggins

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7. That all depends on how you define "rely"
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 03:15 PM
Sep 2014

They obviously haven't gotten much electricity from nuclear power over the last three years... so do they "rely" on it?

OTOH, they've been running old fossil plants longer and at higher capacity rates... and still had to constrain demand (with some people dying from heatstroke without air conditioning)... as well as take big hits to their balance of trade and GDP (which just saw the largest negative figure in 5+ years).

That might reasonably be called something they relied on - but have had to suffer without.

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