Nuclear is Drying out in France – Nuclear faces an extreme drought

Nuclear is Drying out in France – Nuclear faces an extreme drought / Jennifer Helgeson, economist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA, Climatico, 20/06/2011

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Since the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan, things have continued to get worse for nuclear world-wide. In the past months, Germany and Switzerland decided to phase-out their nuclear power infrastructure by 2022.  Just this past week, Italy passed a referendum outlawing the return of nuclear power.  Yet, France continues to hold strong and shows no sign of changed policies concerning the country’s generation of nuclear power…