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
And this applies to renewables too: photovoltaic panels contain toxic elements such as cadmium which, if just left on site unprocessed, poison the ground as it happened many times on failed PV projects.
Wind turbines contain hundreds of liters of gearbox oil which is deadly toxic to marine life and also require careful handling.
It's only in Greenpeace stories where renewables are made of pranic energy and never expire... In reality all engineering is dirty if mishandled.
