French Nuclear Power Issues

Seems like France nuclear power has it's own problemshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/business/france-nuclear-p...

Currently Germany is exporting lots and lots of energy to France because the French nuclear plants are in large part not working (repairs, corrosion damage, lack of water for cooling). Given that nuclear is demonstrably not working well for France what makes you so certain things would work better in other countries?

France have been importing electricity all winter due to woes with their nuclear plants.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/business/nuclear-power-fr...

Can someone explain why France has insane nuclear capacity (75%+ of their energy), yet their energy isn’t too cheap to meter?

For some perspective on the current 'success' of France with nuclear power:http://www.economist.com/news/business/21711087-electricit-d...

France is not so "happy" with nuclear.A state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") states that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewables must replace it.In France nuke-power is backed by gas (which produced 10,3% of gridpower in 2017).The sole reactor currently planned (Flamanville-3) is a complete disaster, more than 10 years behind schedu

Seems like it is happening? I'm guessing the maintenance might be the downside here, but they now have all the experience to build newer, better ones.> France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy, due to a long-standing policy based on energy security.> France is the world's largest net exporter of electricity due to its very low cost of generation, and gains over €3 billion per year from this.<a href="https://world-nuclear.org/informat

Could this be due to France's high use of nuclear energy (~70%)? I wish we had that, but it's nearly impossible to build here.

We don't need revolutionary design, though. France uses pressurized water reactors to generate over 70% of it's electricity. And they pay half the cost for that electricity as Germany, which shut down its nuclear plants and tried to build solar and wind instead (and their emissions remained mostly flat because of all the gas plants they build to replace their nuclear plants).

Half of France's nuclear fleet is offline due to maintenance issues. They've gone from an electricity exporter to importer when it is most needed.Have a look at Flamanville 3 and try to sell another 50 of those to the public.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...