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1. ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 14:27:39 UTC ☆ Dmitri ☭

   Macron announces France is to build up to 14 new nuclear reactors. Nuclear energy already provides about 70 per cent of French electricity, a higher proportion than in any other country.
   https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/france-to-build-up-to-14-new-nuclear-reactors-b2012331.html

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   • ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 14:28:04 UTC ☆ Dmitri ☭

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     • Yulran 🌱

     @Yulran yeah that makes it a somewhat less ambitious. At least France is already around 70% nuclear so they just need to move the last 30% of fossils now.

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   • Yulran 🌱 (yulran@yulran.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 14:28:20 UTC Yulran 🌱

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     @yogthos Some caveat: the current ones will all at the same time reach their end of life pretty soon, and the best estimates are that the total nuclear production will actually decrease (from 60GW currently to at best 50GW).

     So it's more like "France plans to try to replace its aging reactors".

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 14:29:05 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @yogthos Glad to hear that someone is stepping up to provide the base load and balancing supply for the German power grid.
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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke

     Meanwhile in Sweden - wind turbines on natives land and solar power that in ineffective here in the north

     @yogthos

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 14:47:23 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Alan-Tactical Nuclear 🐧
     @alan @yogthos The French are the best in the world at using nuclear for balancing load.
   • ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 14:47:27 UTC ☆ Dmitri ☭

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     • Alan-Tactical Nuclear 🐧

     @alan https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx

   • Alan-Tactical Nuclear 🐧 (alan@mastodon.technology)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 14:47:27 UTC Alan-Tactical Nuclear 🐧

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     @yogthos thx! Though I want to take a closer look to it because nuclear power is very good for base electricity consumption, but it’s very hard to use for peaks and variable consumption

   • Alan-Tactical Nuclear 🐧 (alan@mastodon.technology)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 14:47:28 UTC Alan-Tactical Nuclear 🐧

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     @yogthos where do they get the 70% figure?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 15:14:30 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Alan-Tactical Nuclear 🐧
     > “What this study shows is that rather than shut down nuclear plants, you can operate them in a way that makes room for renewables,” says Jenkins. “It shows that flexible nuclear plants can play much better with variable renewables than many people think, which might lead to reevaluations of the role of these two resources together.
     
     energy.mit.edu/news/keeping-th…
     
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 11-Feb-2022 15:18:27 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Alan-Tactical Nuclear 🐧
     > According to Jenkins, all reactor designs now being licensed or built in the U.S., Canada, and Europe are capable of flexible operation, as are many older reactors now in service.
     
     > [ . . . ] "when nuclear plants were originally licensed in the U.S., it wasn’t really necessary for them to play a role in following demand patterns throughout the day, and so nuclear plants in the U.S. weren’t licensed to operate that way.”
     
     > [ . . . ] nuclear power plants were designed for flexibility [ . . . ] This never really happened, except in France, which gets over 70% of its electricity from nuclear and has accordingly operated some of its nuclear plants to follow changing demand for years.
     
     
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