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Not just maintenance costs but some truly eyewatering upcoming decommissioning costs as well as construction on new plants.

EDF already went bankrupt like, last week.

Even despite all of this France is expecting the % of electricity sourced from nuclear power to decline - new plants aren't being built fast enough to replace those aging out.

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Humm, EDF need money thank for regulation that force the company to sell electricity at a loss. % of nuclear electricity may decline but not sharply.

"at a loss" is highly debatable: the 'Cour des comptes' (local Court of Accounts) officially published figures showing that the production cost was 22€ when this law was passed, and the fixed price is 42€... Not even counting the huge amounts of public money gobbled up by EDF since the very beginning.

> EDF already went bankrupt like, last week.

Because the costs thet sell at are capped, regardless of what it costs them to generate (and those costs exploded in some areas due to the war and the common European power market), which was the right choice to protect consumers from energy poverty.

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