<story><title>Nuclear Power in France</title><url>https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redm</author><text>&amp;quot;Government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m no expert on Nuclear power but it seems to me were going in the wrong direction. At a time when we&amp;#x27;re investing so much money in other fuels, we could be investing that in better nuclear power, like Small Modular Reactors [1], Sodium Cooled Fission, Small Pellet reactors, etc. [2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.energy.gov&amp;#x2F;ne&amp;#x2F;advanced-small-modular-reactors-smrs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.energy.gov&amp;#x2F;ne&amp;#x2F;advanced-small-modular-reactors-sm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;safer-nuclear-reactors-are-on-the-way&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;safer-nuclear-rea...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;p&gt;I see France is investing in Small Reactors, but only 1 billion.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;One billion euros is to be thrown into nuclear power: “We need to develop small, innovative nuclear reactors in France by 2030, with better waste management,&amp;quot; Macron said.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rfi.fr&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;france&amp;#x2F;20211012-hydrogen-nuclear-power-drive-macron-s-%E2%82%AC30bn-plan-to-reindustrialise-france-2030&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rfi.fr&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;france&amp;#x2F;20211012-hydrogen-nuclear-power...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Nuclear Power in France</title><url>https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>logicalmonster</author><text>&amp;gt; However, 58% thought that nuclear power caused climate change while only 46% thought that coal burning did so&lt;p&gt;This raises some interesting thoughts about the nature and importance of democracy.</text></comment>