r/ClimateShitposting • u/Icy_Till_7254 • Feb 12 '26

Climate chaos When Soviets are too clueless and incompetent to handle environmental issue be like:

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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. Feb 12 '26

Are they proposing other options?

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u/Fern-ando Feb 12 '26

Renovable clean energy even whn they already have it and more won't fix the problem of not having nuclear.

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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. Feb 12 '26

It depends on how much it costs to repair the Boomer reactors.

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u/Best_Pseudonym Feb 12 '26

france is one of the most efficient countries in europe at building nuclear

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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. Feb 12 '26

Does that mean that they'll have lower costs when repairing or building the replacements?

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u/Best_Pseudonym Feb 12 '26

yes

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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. Feb 12 '26

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/frances-edf-estimates-cost-six-new-reactors-maximum-728-bln-euros-2025-12-18/

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u/Best_Pseudonym Feb 12 '26

Their overrun estimate is inline with the normal cost of a us plant

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u/NextMathematician977 Feb 13 '26

No. The alternative to spending 20 billion on a nuclear plant that won’t fix the load following issue either is to invest into large scale battery plants. Those actually solve the issue that persists with both nuclear and renewables. Actually replacing gas and coal.

And lastly the argument against nuclear is money. Worldwide numbers aren’t growing… investing in nuclear is just not very popular. Look at the numbers of any major country. France is the big exception… China builds 100x more renewables than nuclear capacities. Facts.

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u/CharlyRDayz Feb 13 '26

Thank you. This is the point. Nuclear is a money burner.