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Environment & Energy

John ONeill

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1. SuperPhenix ...

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Fri Dec 12, 2025, 05:56 PM

Dec 12

... had some technical issues, but mainly it was dogged by bad luck (heavy snow collapsed the turbine hall roof), anti-nuke agitation (rioting Germans, many of them), lawfare, and political machinations. Before Prime Minister Jospin gave it the coup de grace to secure Green party votes in parliament, it had been running for much of its last operational year at up to 95% capacity factor, enough to pay its running costs.

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A BOE Estimate of Deaths Connected with Coal Combustion in Wyoming. [View all] NNadir Dec 11 OP

SuperPhenix ... John ONeill Dec 12 #1

I didn't know that. I need to look into the history. I do know Monju had sodium leaks that caught fire. NNadir Dec 12 #2

Edwin Lyman continues to tell the truth about the dangerous and uneconomical nuclear industry. thought crime Dec 14 #3

Ed Lie-man continues to work for the collapse of the planetary atmosphere and human deaths. NNadir Dec 14 #4