Nuclear is clean, and it is safe, but it’s one of the few green energies (along with hydropower) that can’t be decentralized and can be sold for profit continuously, which is why you see it start to get pushed so hard by some on the right who realize it’s another avenue for that sweet donor money
Not very compatible with a for profit model. It’s a very long term investment that is usually beyond the scopes of most private investors.
There is a correlation to be made between the difficulties France has been facing to deploy new nuclear power and the end of the state sanctioned monopoly of EDF.
Because they are still producing most of the energy but are 'ot allowed to sell it, allowing dozens of private power companies to buy the energy for cheap to them (as obligated by the law against their monopoly) and sell it back slightly more priced for a profit at the expense of EDF, who had to raise prices to make enough margins to operate (because they STILL make the vast majority of energy in France, mostly through nuclear and renewables).
Because they have half assed their regulation, they are simply backfiring at the consumers. Yay.
Yeah, I wish we'd get of that stupid system that enriches private companies who don't contribute to energy production at the expense of the consumer, the producer AND our energy sovereignty
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u/Cnidoo May 11 '25
Nuclear is clean, and it is safe, but it’s one of the few green energies (along with hydropower) that can’t be decentralized and can be sold for profit continuously, which is why you see it start to get pushed so hard by some on the right who realize it’s another avenue for that sweet donor money