France built a lot of nuclear, but it isn't really sustainable, or all that clean. Their choice now is throw more money at it, or take the cheaper route with renewables. They will build at least some new nuclear, to keep their supply of weapons grade material and expertise up.

At the time it was a reasonable decision. Nuclear was promised to deliver much, and to be fair looked like it might. But now we have the benefit of hindsight, and more important we have better alternatives.

As with all SMR designs, it fails to solve the real problems that nuclear power has. You still need all the very expensive support stuff like a containment building, on-site waste storage pools, high levels of security, and extensive monitoring and safety systems. In addition, most of these designs require a cooling pool that much be protected because without it the reactors go into meltdown.

Of course before you can build any of that, you need to go through the expensive and time consuming process of checking the site for geological stability, extreme weather events, risk to ground water and so on. And also build all the infrastructure needed for a nuclear plant, and develop a proper evacuation plan for the surrounding area.

These things will never be a hut you can plug in to a data centre, and many data centres will be located in places that are unsuitable for them anyway. Data centres already use a lot of water, and SMRs will require even more.

The EU solution is for them to pay corporation tax based on where their revenue actually comes from, hence the requirement to release a country-by-country compliance report. If 10% of their profit comes from France, they can pay corporation tax on 10% of their global profits to France, regardless of any bullshit subsidiary franchise fees and other crap they have in place.

If you were not aware a common trick they use is to make the national subsidiary pay crippling licencing fees to the parent Irish company to use their branding, which means that the subsidiary ends up making almost zero profit, and corporation tax is only paid on profits.

Electricity should be free at the point of use, like roads and healthcare. Obviously tax pays for it, but it's infrastructure and something everyone needs to live in the modern world (especially with climate change making air conditioning a matter of survival).

Energy is part of the national industrial strategy, and national security. To ensure those things it should be government run or heavily regulated, and so abundant that it is free for consumers and only businesses pay for their use. The really sad part is that we are now in a position to make that happen, to do what China is doing and massively boost our industry with cheap energy.

This is highly selective and misleading.

China hit peak coal and is now in decline. New plants are replacing older ones, and are cleaner, and are designed to better load follow so they fit in with renewables. Meanwhile, last year (2025) China installed so much new renewable capacity that the total output for the year (from just the new stuff) equalled the entire output of all sources of generation in Germany.

In one year.

The "but China" argument is well and truly dead. If the US and Europe were doing even half as much as China is to reduce emissions, the world would be in a much, much better place.

Earthquakes and tsunami were a known hazard at the site of Fukushima Daiichi. Just like extreme heat and drought are a known hazard for lots of other nuclear plants in more geologically stable areas now. They failed to properly plan for and mitigate those dangers, and the results was multiple meltdowns and explosions.

A large amount of the loss can be directly attributed to those failures, not the earthquake of tsunami. Water did not destroy those towns, the necessary evacuation order and subsequent contamination did. The repeated failed attempts to clean them up meant that by the time adults were allowed to start coming back (it was too dangerous for children), the communities were already gone and no longer viable. It also had a devastating effect on businesses in the area, particularly farms and fishing.

The process to clean up the site is also failing. It's well behind schedule and the planned method is looking like it might not be viable.

Every data centre should be covered in solar as an absolute minimum. It provides shade and generates energy.

In Europe commercial customers typically pay a rate that is based on the price of energy at the time of use, and their power factor. So they will want batteries, to help avoid peak costs and to make their power factor as close to 1 as possible. Plus UPS, of course. But maybe it's different in the US.

If they have the space then windmills make sense too. Nuclear is obviously a no-go because a) SMRs don't exist yet and b) if they did exist they would require the standard nuclear safety and waste storage on-site, which is extremely expensive and would need additional specialist staff to manage.

While your point is correct, the problem is when you get a government who really believes private is always better, sabotages the public utility to show how bad public ownership is and sells it to their friends cheap. It happened here where the government balanced their books by getting the electric utility to borrow massively and pay huge dividends to the government. Luckily there was a change in government before the sell part. Took years to fix the issues.
Then there is the example of the UK when Thatcher ruled. Most all public stuff sold off and the country has been fucked since. They did briefly lower the taxes though.
Well run government owned utilities are always more efficient then private ones, which put profit first, but it has to be well run. In America there is one party who's mission is to prove government is bad at running things and they'll make sure of it, and they regularly get voted in.

If I handed you a blank map of the middle east you wouldn't even be able to locate Iran.

Congress even says Israel is the biggest recipient of funds and weapons https://www.congress.gov/crs-p...

Why don't all these MAGA voting farmers hire red blooded MAGA workers?

And it would be child's Play for us to build enough wind and solar to power every single car in the country. As well as every single house in business.

The reason we don't is because of low effort posts like yours. You're either a bot or you're somebody who has been manipulated by bots. Either way that's a sad way to spend your life son.

That is a simplification. We had some very healthy people here get very sick from Covid around here, sick enough they barely survived with a lot of medical help. It was theorized that genetics had a large influence with sickly people with the right genes easily defeating Covid and healthy people without those genes having a hell of a time.
It's an advantage of having a very diverse population, good odds of some having some degree of natural immunity.

I'm talking about the 10 years during which the city was evacuated because of the high radiation levels. A tsunami doesn't cause that. People move back in and rebuild. You can't do that when the radiation levels are elevated to the point where they are likely to cause cancers.

And Jesus mother fucking Christ telling me that people lose everything so I should be okay with losing everything is just fucking insane. What the hell happened to make you this obsessed with nuclear power?

Again you need to answer the question, how do you propose stopping billionaires and other skeezy businessmen from moving in and profiting by cutting back on necessary maintenance like they did in fukushima. As soon as I can tell your solution is to pretend that didn't happen.

It's the same nonsense I get from you guys every time. When reality doesn't fit with the world you want you just pretend reality isn't real.

So answer my question. How do you stop businessmen?

I am pretty damn sure you don't have an answer especially one that fits in with your preferred worldview. Feel free to throw some more misdirection and some more straw man on the fire

You don't have to pay for things that generate more value than they cost. Giving everyone in the country access to free electricity generates more value than the cost of doing it.

The exact same thing goes for healthcare. It's cheaper to give everybody healthcare. According to the Congressional budget office we could save half a trillion a year by giving everyone healthcare. If you ever want to pay off that national debt Medicare for all is how you do it.

You have a scarcity mindset that was put into your brain so that Elon Musk can be a trillionaire and you can wonder when if ever you're going to be able to retire or if you'll have enough time in the day to do the day trading activities needed to stop guys like muskrat from stealing that retirement...

Don't you ever get tired of indulging and comforting lies? Don't you ever want to grow up? Reality is coming for you whether you like it or not. If you aren't going to be dead in the next 10 years you aren't going to have a retirement you're just going to be homeless or crashing on one of your kids couches.

What's your favorite flavor of cat food? Because in 10 years if guys like you keep winning you're going to find out. You better pick a dry option too because you're not going to have enough money for the fancy wet food everyday