Compared to ? It would be good if you put a link of what you put forward in an extraordinary wayABC2019 wrote:For the moment, all nuclear power from the start has "saved" around twenty Gt of C maximum: not only is it nothing, around 4 ppm
And you forget that we are moving towards mainly electrical energy.
For those who find it difficult to sort things out, we can recall what is written in this excellent document (do not stop at the political side of the site) https://lepcf.fr/Creation-de-l-associat ... Climat-PNC
PS: We can underline the courage of the politicians who dare to oppose the single thought.
Including the 58 reactors in service previously, that was almost 40 Gt of CO2 equivalent saved per year, which largely contradicts your assertion.Fessenheim reactor 1 was shut down in February 2020 and reactor 2 on June 30. The two reactors together produced around 12 TWh (terawatt-hours) per year, which provides an annual income of 500 million euros. Such income would correspond to that of a portfolio of 9 billion euros (on the basis of a reactor life of 40 years and a discount rate of 4,5%).
The Center Nucléaire de Production d'Electricité (CNPE) is the main provider of jobs and funding for the Fessenheim region. The abandonment of this heritage has not been justified. Moreover, the virtually carbon-free electric current (12 grams of CO2 / kWh) produced by the two reactors will be replaced by that imported from Germany, mainly produced by coal-fired power stations (1000 gCO2 / kWh).
While the two reactors at Fessenheim are shut down, a 1100 MW coal-fired power station is commissioned on the other side of the Rhine, Datteln. Ultimately the shutdown of the Fessenheim plant will result in the emission of 13 million tonnes of additional CO2 each year.
And for those who point to the risks as a final argument
A comparative study of the risks associated with the production of electricity was carried out by the European Union. Its main results, summarized by the journal Forbes, have a few surprises in store: