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What is one relatively unknown thing that your country does much better than elsewhere, but that most people don't know about? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by NateNate60@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nuclear is too expensive to run in the short term. Nuclear plants only start being profitable after like 10 years. But then they're really fucking profitable. So it makes sense a company could go bankrupt when you're 10 years in the red.

Also, on the topic of flexibility, this is only true for, like, 70s era nuclear. France has had load-following nuclear for some time now. Does it follow second-to-second variations? No, but it can load follow on the scale of the daily variations in demand.