• m8052@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Still massive exporter of electricity. I wonder how much coal and gas would burn in Europe if French npp weren’t there.

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      10 hours ago

      They have to export because you can’t just shut down a Nuclear Reactor. So they sell it for cheap to other countries. It would be more expensive for them to shut down a reactor because they produce too much. The other countrys gladly take the cheap energy. But france doesn’t really make profit with this, it’s just less expensive for them.