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France’s nuclear fleet gives it one of the world’s lowest-carbon electricity grids
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We should have been deploying nuclear much earlier and then augment with renewables. Once energy storage technology matured more you could phase out nuclear plants.
That would've required long term planning though and what if in the end it came out that coal isn't so bad at all, huh, what then??? /s