Taking the bull by the horns Thank you for including the news feature (September 18) about France’s reprocessing of nuclear waste for reuse in nuclear power stations, a technology in which this country is avant-garde. More than 80 per cent of France’s electricity is generated by zero carbon emissions nuclear power. Finland is in a similar electricity generation capacity as it recently commissioned a huge state-of-the-art French-designed nuclear power station which is also claimed to be bombproof. The Penly nuclear power plant off the coast of Dieppe, western France. Photo: Lou BENOIST/AFP The UK plans building several nuclear power stations over the next few decades to complement its huge development of wind-power. On the other hand, often because of misinformation and Greens in government coalitions, countries like Germany and Italy plan to shut down (or have already done so) all their nuclear power stations. These countries have made a massive strategic mistake of relying on coal (the dirtiest fossil fuel) and on gas supplied exclusively by a dictatorship run by a dangerous bully. Zero carbon by 2050 can never be achieved with fossil fuel (natural gas included) power stations.
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