The competition is on for Eastern Europe’s #nuclear power market 🇨🇿 🇭🇺 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇦🇩
The long-term risks and costs of civilian nuclear power are too high.
France has the most nuclearised electricity:
* The cost of managing closed-down civilian nuclear reactors is huge: they produce no electricity but remain radioactive and must be permanently protected from tourists, thieves and terrorists.
* The plan of how to treat the most dangerous radioactive waste is still very uncertain; it *might* start at #Cigéo in 2025:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestion_des_d%C3%A9chets_radioactifs_en_France
As you speak of decommissioning, this applies to *any* technology and singling our nuclear is a manipulation.
Coal ash releases hundreds times (!) more radioactive elements to the environment than a nuclear power plant, yet countries are still burning coal and producing coal ash at 2000 m3 per day, which they just dump on huge heaps that occupy thousands of hectares.
These hills on the picture (Poland) are all coal ash, and they also require decades of treatment...
