On: French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse

[shmel]

It is depressing that deliveroo drivers as well as wine shops were considered "essential" during lockdowns while maintenance of nuclear plants wasn't.

[bobthepanda → shmel]

The issue with most construction (and something complex like reactor maintenance) is that by its nature it is close-quarters, team-based work. A situation that you would want to minimize during an epidemic.