France, Financial Nightmare

How France’s nuclear dream became a financial nightmare. The French

nuclear power sector is in deep trouble technically and financially.

Formally a cheap source of power, embedded costs have not been counted.
There has been a dramatic loss of skills over the decades, inhibiting
effective maintenance of existing plants and turning the construction of
France’s then most powerful reactor at Flamanville on the Normandy coast
into a nightmare. Technological and resource challenges have escalated,
including water availability in the face of climate change. The plan to
bury accumulated highly radioactive waste at Bure, 250 kilometres east of
Paris, remains at an impasse. And the political class lives in denial.

Independent Australia 22nd Aug 2025 

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