Originally Posted by
CBreezy
There is no doubt that many European countries have been negligent in their NATO obligations. And certainly I agreed with the previous administration's effort to hold them accountable, albeit disagreed with undermining it in favor of Russia. The correction isn't for us to throw up our hands and tell them you're on your own. It is to help them get back to their funding obligation and multilaterally punish the aggression by Russia through sanctions. Everything else you said distracts from root cause of the problem. Side note: France's electricity generation from Nuclear is still 78% and 19.1% are renewables, so I'm not sure which misinformation farm you got your stats from. As I've heard said before, our beef is not with the Russian people. Generally they have no issue with the US. Our problem is with the hardliners that have taken control of the Russian government.
Published on March 4, 2020 by
Charles Digges
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France began shutting down its oldest nuclear plant last month after 43 years of operation, the first in a series of closures the government has proposed though the the country won’t altogether abandon its reliance on nuclear power.
Yet the closure of the two reactors at the Fessenheim plant along the Rhine River on France’s border with Switzerland and Germany, is part of a broad energy strategy to rely more on renewable energy sources.
That strategy would see French dependence on nuclear energy from supplying three-quarters of its electricity to about half by 2035.
The shutdown has also been a key goal of anti-nuclear campaigners since the Fukushima disaster in 2011. Experts have noted that the reactors at Fessenheim, brought online in 1977, fall far short of even those reactors at Fukushima, with some warning that seismic and flooding risks in the Alsace region have been underestimated
Both France and Germany have bought heavily into the Green’s anti nuke arguments. That they can’t do it instantaneously does not mean they aren’t doing it. Building or upgrading a reactor is a long lead time activity. The reactors are being phased out - not replaced or refueled.
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