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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

How dependent is France on Niger's uranium?

www.lemonde.fr

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How dependent is France on Niger's uranium?

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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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The military coup in Niger has raised concerns about uranium mining in the country by the French group Orano, and the consequences for France's energy independence.
  • Svante
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    0•2 years ago

    @matthewtoad43 @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis

    At least Germany never had subsidies for commercial nuclear power.

    On the other hand, »renewables« are still subsidized heavily, and there is much moaning right now because the build-out is slowing down, as the best places are taken.

    And France has no /real/ problem with its riverside plants. Last year (much bemoaned) had 0.05% (one twentieth of a percent) curtailing for river temperatures.

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      1•2 years ago

      @Ardubal @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis Farm scale solar, onshore and offshore (non-floating) wind cost approximately £50 per MWh in the last CfD auction. That’s half the CFD agreed for Hinkley C.

      Mature renewables are already cheaper than nuclear. By a factor of two, compared to first-of-a-kind over-budget new nuclear.

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        @matthewtoad43 @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis

        Again, £50 per MWh is at current penetration levels of volatiles. This doesn’t scale linearly.

        See that you get to more-of-the-same-kind nuclear reactors. This does.

        • MatthewToad43
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          @Ardubal @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis What do you mean it doesn’t scale linearly?

          If you need to over-build by 3x, then it costs £150/MWh.

          If you need to use £170/MWh storage for 10% of demand (plausible for hydrogen), you still get a very reasonable figure.

          There’s no obvious non-linearity here. Switching off renewables is trivial, unlike thermal plant.

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