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Bureaucracy is a major one, as it tends to dissipate more and more resources to sustain its own infrastructure, neglecting the core mission (J. Pournelle's Law).

In the same vein: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-count...

If, instead of the nuclear power plant, Japan had deployed photovoltaic panels or wind turbines, the evacuation would not have been necessary and some of these people would have su…

A nuclear accident with far more devastating consequences is possible. The debate isn't about "nuclear or coal?" but about "nuclear or renewables?"

> Three Mile Island was a success in the sense that even the worst case scenario No, as it involved a partial meltdown, not a complete meltdown.

> 1. Lead to basically zero direct deaths "Fukushima Daiichi Accident: Official figures show that there have been 2313 disaster-related deaths among evacuees from Fukushima prefect…

> - For the last 2 decades, EDF was privatised and give back to the state an average of 2bn€ per year in dividende Where in the referenced document do you read this? According to t…

> making a profit by selling valuable nuclear energy EDF adjusted economic debt at the beginning of 2026: €81.7 billion After decades of massive help (nationalisations building it,…

> the German energiewende cost The cost of the energy transition in Germany is sometimes cited as €300 billion, €500 billion, or even €1.5 trillion. These figures are worthless bec…

> the government used the company as a "price shield" to protect consumer against energy price rise on the European market in 2022 EDF's accounts show that the government compensat…

> EDF nuclear fleet is highly profitable with around 92TWh exported in 2025 Nope. Electricity exports are officially exported at a loss, since the average price per MWh exported is…

Too many things are left unsaid => too many assumptions. As usual, even with human beings specifications are key, and context (what each entity knows about the other one or the sit…

There is software working at - finding correspondences (solve parts of the puzzle) and reconstructing at least part of certain documents ( https://arkeonews.net/new-ai-tool-fragmen…

> capacity factors Deeming dispatchable power necessary was valid as long as the technical means (long-distance, high-capacity transmission, smart grids, energy storage, network ma…

> There are some very recent arsenic spills Indeed, but nothing comparable to the spills at Chernobyl or Fukushima. > Nuclear fuel can be recycled Only once, and France, an industr…

> 8bn/unit is successful considering that FL3 was 23bn. Yes, a failure is better than a disaster. As we say in France, "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." > Korea…

Storage, such as batteries coupled with V2G and also green-hydrogen fed turbo-alternators, can alleviate this.

Arsenic: this only plays during mining (recycling is OK), and efficient measures are already in place (where and when was it a problem, and at which extent?) > capacity factor So w…

Hopefully all little tricks are now known... > relatively on time and on budget Nope. 7 years late (plan: 2017, last reactor diverged in 2024). Total cost not known, at least 24.5 …

AFAIK all the raw materials (maybe not all top-notch, especially from the get go, but usable) and all the know-how exist in Europe (at worst currently working abroad), where many n…

Regarding known and exploited or rapidly exploitable deposits, we are very, very far from millions of years: "As of 2017, identified uranium reserves recoverable at US$130/kg were …

Indeed, sorry. Decentralizing solar power reduces electricity transmission costs and improves reliability. This doesn't offset the additional cost, but it's not negligible.

Sea water: "it is clear that it would be very risky today, to have a long-term industrial strategy based on significant production of uranium from seawater with an affordable cost"…

> even Barakah built as new by Korea is competitive You bet it does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_nuclear_scandal

An accident spreading hazardous substances over a large geographical area that are difficult to contain (or waste of this type) is unique to nuclear power; no renewable energy sour…