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>It looks more like you are spreading fear mongering trying to portray nuclear more dangerous that it is.

Every country operating nuclear power has rules, regulations and action plans that match what I am saying about the dangers of nuclear power plants.

If I'm spreading anything it's knowledge that's agreed upon by every expert in the field.

Your arguments rest on the idea that nuclear is harmless because the harm hasn't happened yet, and that's simply not good enough.

>The statement about pretending to have cheap electricity is total bullshit and you know it

No it's not BS. I assumed you were familiar with ARENH but apparently not - in short, France decided that nuclear electricity should be sold at 42 euros per MWh, but it turned out that was not enough to sustain the plants and keep them in good shape. It ended with France having to let taxpayers cover the EDF debt and renovations.

Once the nationalization was done, the new price is 70e per MWh.

This means exactly what I said - during all of ARENH, nuclear power "pretended" to be cheaper than it actually was, but there was a hidden cost that ended up having to be paid for by taxpayers decades later.

If 70 is the true cost or just a less bad price than ARENH dictated remains to be seen, but there is one fact we know already - the price for electricity in France is often less than 70 euros. And when it is, the taxpayers in France take the loss.

A similar hidden cost is brewing in Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, the US, and it has surfaced in Japan (bigtime) and Korea.

I want you to study other sources than the ones you have studied so far, and widen your knowledge about the topic. But you are clearly annoyed with me so it's probably counterproductive to argue this further here.



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