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[Valmy]

Hollande is working hard to get the FN elected I see.

[The Larch]

The fascination of this forum with nuclear energy will never cease to amaze me.

[Grey Fox]

The fascination of this forum with nuclear energy will never cease to amaze me.

Why?

[The Brain]

The fascination of this forum with nuclear energy will never cease to amaze me.

Elaborate.

[derspiess]

Dang, out of popcorn.  Pretzels will have to do.

[The Larch]

France, which gets something like 70 or 80 percent of their energy consumption from nuclear want to lower it to "only" 50 percent, and people go crazy. Its not really smart to depend so much from one single source of power, and even less when it forces them to be constantly involved in African shitholes that sell them most of their uranium.

[Valmy]

The fascination of this forum with nuclear energy will never cease to amaze me.

Taking down proven clean energy generation in favor of policies that are suspect if not already proven to be failures?  In an economy teetering on the brink like France's?  I especially like the goal of reducing energy consumption by 50%.  I mean are France's buildings really that inefficient that a few remodels will reduce energy consumption that much in a growing population?  LOL

[Barrister]

France, which gets something like 70 or 80 percent of their energy consumption from nuclear want to lower it to "only" 50 percent, and people go crazy. Its not really smart to depend so much from one single source of power, and even less when it forces them to be constantly involved in African shitholes that sell them most of their uranium.

Canada has plenty of uranium to sell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_Canada

[The Larch]

Nuclear is not clean at all. You get a big pile of nuclear waste that you have to dispose, cant take that out of the equation.

And energy efficiency is a huge challenge for the future. Lots of energy is wasted due to ineficiencies that can be corrected. Its a step in the right direction, although that 50 percent mark seems a bit outrageous.

[Admiral Yi]

Its not really smart to depend so much from one single source of power

I don't see why not.  It's not as if the science of fission is highly variable.

[The Brain]

France, which gets something like 70 or 80 percent of their energy consumption from nuclear want to lower it to "only" 50 percent, and people go crazy. Its not really smart to depend so much from one single source of power, and even less when it forces them to be constantly involved in African shitholes that sell them most of their uranium.

It's 70-80% of electricity, not of energy consumption. Lots of countries produce uranium if the shitholes stop flowing. Renewables are more dangerous than nuclear.

[The Brain]

Nuclear is not clean at all. You get a big pile of nuclear waste that you have to dispose, cant take that out of the equation.

It is in all fairness a very tiny pile, it's one of the things about nuclear that you get a low volume of waste and you don't release it to the environment. And there are ways to dispose it, you can for instance bury it. Works great.

[Barrister]

Its not really smart to depend so much from one single source of power,

Manitoba (and Quebec) get virtually 100% of their electricity from a single source - hydro.

While some sources of electricity are dangerous to rely to heavily on because they are quite variable) solar and wind for example), diversity of electricity sources is not a virtue in and of itself.

[crazy canuck]

Its not really smart to depend so much from one single source of power

I don't see why not.  It's not as if the science of fission is highly variable.

Many minor earthquakes (magnitude 1 or less) are detected every year in France. The average number of earthquakes increases by a factor of 10 when the magnitude threshold is reduced by 1. Estimates suggest that every century in France, there is approximately one earthquake of magnitude 6 or more, ten earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more, one hundred of magnitude 4 or more and more than one thousand earthquakes of magnitude 3 or more. Worldwide over the same period, there are more than 10,000 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more. On average, about twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.5 or more are detected every year in mainland France ...

[The Brain]

Its not really smart to depend so much from one single source of power

I don't see why not.  It's not as if the science of fission is highly variable.

Many minor earthquakes (magnitude 1 or less) are detected every year in France. The average number of earthquakes increases by a factor of 10 when the magnitude threshold is reduced by 1. Estimates suggest that every century in France, there is approximately one earthquake of magnitude 6 or more, ten earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more, one hundred of magnitude 4 or more and more than one thousand earthquakes of magnitude 3 or more. Worldwide over the same period, there are more than 10,000 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more. On average, about twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.5 or more are detected every year in mainland France ...