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Something's Rotten with French Nuclear

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What's Happening to Europe? The French Nuclear Fleet

At its peak, the french nuclear fleet was producing 434, forty for 50 terawat hours per year. A single productive nuclear reactor should be able to produce five to ten terrawat hours of electricity per year. Entire small nations run off of a few dozen terawathours per year of electricity. The french nuclear fleet would have been something like a a quarter of that electricity. So almost the same persentage as it was of us.

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