Comments on: French nuclear under pressure – from German renewables? https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/ The Global Energiewende Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: France to close five nuclear reactors? - FueladdictsFueladdicts https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-6332 Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:38:56 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-6332 […] when the facility was off, a 465-ton generator fell off a crane within the facility in March 2016, causing an earthquake. Reuters reports that the reopening scheduled to take place in April has now been postponed to June […]

]]> By: The US nuclear camp critiques studies for 100% renewables. Without reading them. - FueladdictsFueladdicts https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-5485 Mon, 15 May 2017 14:13:32 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-5485 […] Transparency in democracy: as numerous authors from various countries have found, the nuclear sector has always come at the expense of open democracy. Strikes, for instance, are a safety issue. […]

]]> By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-4750 Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:37:42 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-4750 Retroactive price hike for French atom power:

http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFFWN197045

The highest court sees it a a proven fact that the atom power prices are subsidized.

EdF wants extra money to close the atom power plants:

(in French)
http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/06/15/edf-refuse-d-enclencher-la-fermeture-de-fessenheim_4950741_3234.html

The atom industry is a toy box of the arms industry, if something is damaged mom will mend it:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3a3b392a-32da-11e6-bda0-04585c31b153.html#axzz4BeWmdSk0

(Paywall? Use the headline in the search engine: ” Areva says TVO talks collapse will not hinder state bailout “)

]]> By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-4749 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:01:52 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-4749 The French atom authority ASN doesn’t want to extend the demolition plans.
EdF wanted to delay the demolition of the old gas reactors due to costs:

http://www.rtl.fr/actu/sciences-environnement/nucleaire-l-asn-juge-inacceptable-le-calendrier-de-demantelement-d-edf-7783639209

Machine translation:

https://translate.google.ie/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtl.fr%2Factu%2Fsciences-environnement%2Fnucleaire-l-asn-juge-inacceptable-le-calendrier-de-demantelement-d-edf-7783639209

]]> By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-4748 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 13:53:00 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-4748 @ HG:

Contact the Japanese embassy for advice ……

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-13/coal-to-replace-gas-as-japan-s-leading-power-source-from-2019

The incompetence of atom power to cope with the market situation is well known:

http://www.renewablesinternational.net/nuclear-and-coal-power-when-renewables-are-curtailed/150/537/95969/

]]> By: H G https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-4747 Sun, 12 Jun 2016 16:18:33 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-4747 “And because too many people concerned about carbon emissions fail to understand how incompatible nuclear is with wind & solar.”
What an odd statement. People concerned about carbon emissions and power densities (hint – think land use and intermittency) understand perfectly well the limits and advanteges of wind and solar, as well as those of nuclear, how course

]]> By: Mangesh S Sawant https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-4746 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:28:53 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-4746 Nuclear power is not safe, neither clean nor cheap. Nuclear power is not ethical in the first place as it creates liability, radioactive spent nuclear fuel lasting for hundreds of thousands of the years, for our future generations to take care of, who have no role in creating it. The world should get rid of it.

]]> By: Tim K.Blades https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-4745 Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:25:44 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-4745 Hinkley Point C is bust and it’s time for EDF to announce it’s cancellation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKsQZvaNaAs

]]> By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-4744 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 22:39:21 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-4744 The financial situation of EdF is so dire they have to delay the demolition of 8 reactors – which are already retired since decades – into the 22nd century:

(in French)
http://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/edf-renvoie-le-demantelement-de-ses-vieux-reacteurs-au-siecle-prochain_38559/

The French atom authority (in French):
http://www.asn.fr/Informer/Actualites/Demantelement-des-centrales-nucleaires-de-premiere-generation

4 generations later after closing down the bill will be presented – to who ?

]]> By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2016/06/french-nuclear-under-pressure-from-german-renewables/#comment-4743 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 22:28:44 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10344#comment-4743 (good article,thanks!)

EdF’s PV-sector is selling now home installations with battery.
The produced power should not enter the grid, all generated power is to be consumed at home:

http://www.pv-tech.org/news/edf-switches-entire-residential-pv-offering-to-self-consumption

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