After Fessenheim, the new bone to chew on for antinuclear cells is the Bugey power station. Unconsciousness? utopianism? patronage? Reckless primary antinuclearization? An abysmal request.
Text inspired by Maxence Cordiez, which I approve of course:
- The Bugey is twice Fessenheim (which it was already very stupid to close, but hey, François Hollande needed it to be elected
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- Currently, given that there is still a third of European electricity of fossil origin, shutting down nuclear power means increasing CO2 emissions significantly. Closing the Bugey plant, all other things being equal, would increase CO2 emissions between 12 and 20 million tonnes of CO2 per year, i.e. the annual carbon footprint of 1 to 1,5 million French people (!!!) ( Explanations here:
https://www.afis.org/Fermeture-de-la-centrale-de...)
- EELV asks ASN not to extend the Bugey power plant. A political party asks a technical body designed precisely to be independent of political power to take a decision going in their direction. We would have a political party that would ask ASN to extend the power plants, the anti-nuclear groups would be screaming
- EELV proposes to replace the Bugey power station with photovoltaics and biogas. Except that the orders of magnitude do not add up at all.
The Bugey plant produces double the amount of photovoltaic energy in France. In addition, the plant is controllable while the photovoltaic is not. Even tripling all the photovoltaic power in France, the service provided would therefore not be the same.
As for biogas, the Bugey power station produces 10 times all the biogas currently produced, and gas is a less valuable form of energy than electricity. If we wanted to transform this biogas into electricity, we would have to go through a combined cycle power station with an efficiency of 50%, so we go to a factor of 20. In addition, I would remind you that currently, we import 560 TWh of fossil gas per year, emitting 128 million tonnes of CO2 per year. We could already start by using biogas to replace fossil gas before considering replacing nuclear with it. Well, currently we are at 1,2 TWh of biogas per year, so it's not tomorrow that we will have replaced all the fossil gas