Reply #27: France moving away from nuclear power? Which anti lied to you about that.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Nuclear_Power

In 2006, the French Government asked Areva and EDF to build a next generation nuclear reactor, the EPR (European Pressurized Reactor), at the Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant.
This was followed in 2008 by a Presidential announcement of another new EPR, spurred by high oil and gas prices.

In 2005 EdF announced plans to replace the current nuclear plants with new 1650 MWe units as they reach the end of their licensed life, starting around 2020. This decisions confirms that France will continue indefinitely to use nuclear power as its primary electricity source. In order to replace the current 58 reactors, one new large unit will have to be built about every year for about 40 years.

Not only does nuclear energy supply 80% of electrical power in France it also allows France to export more electrical power (helping balance of trade) than any other country in the world.

There is only a single country that stopped using nuclear energy once they started. That country in Italy and it has been described as the "worst energy decision in the history of the country". Today Italy imports 30% of their electrical power (imagine what that must cost) from France where it is produced by nuclear energy. OF course Italy just announced a reversal of that stupid decision and has a contract with Avera (France nuclear energy corporation) to build 4 GenIII+ reactors over next decade.