“In France, which gets more than three quarters of its electricity from nuclear power, the appeal to efficiency has been winning approval ever since Japan’s Fukushima disaster of March 2011.” - dw-world.de, 3.1.2012

8.1.2012 von admin.

Quelle: dw-world.de / 3.1.2012 /French anti-nuclear movement allies with austerity drive - A senario for the French energy mix of 2050 / “”Eighty percent of French nuclear power stations went on line between 1977 and 1987,” says Yves Marignac, negaWatt’s nuclear expert who heads the Paris office for WISE, an independent global information service on energy issues.”That means that if you give each an average lifespan of 40 years, French nuclear energy will hit a wall by 2027.”Marignac says that if France doesn’t build any new reactors, it will have to phase out its current fleet within six years of 2027.”It’s not possible to do it any sooner because the renewables will need time to get going, but we can’t wait any longer because of safety issues” says Marignac.” / Read more >> dw-world.de

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