Décembre 2016 / ICIS

The French nuclear outages of 2016 : the backstory

29 December 2016 06:10 Source:ICIS

While nuclear power is often presented as the only reliable and stable low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels, the technology can also be subject to long periods of uncertainty, as reactors are taken offline due to safety considerations.

Following a period of extended outages in Belgium in 2014-2015, the spotlight turned to France in 2016 as nuclear components came under increased scrutiny. This had implications across European power markets, (...)

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