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Something's Rotten with French Nuclear

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Is It Just Not Possible to Run a Large Fleet at High Capacity Factors?

In the rest of the world, this is brought up frequently amongst anti nuclear folks. But t the french, the french capacity factors are quite low. And my understanding is part of that is due to the french using their nuclear feet to heat with. So they run all out in the winter, at least they used to. Ah. We've heard those for year from people both pro nuclear and anti French nuclear.

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