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Originally Posted by martin mustang
What puzzle me is when I post barely coherent sentences of blatantly wrong information to support my confirmation bias
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No, a majority of the electricity in Europe is not from nuclear sources.
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Nuclear power in the European Union accounted for approximately 15% of total energy consumption in 2005. The energy policies of the European Union (EU) member countries vary significantly. As of January 2010, 14 out of 27 countries have nuclear reactors. The countries with reactors are: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.[1] Currently, ten European countries are building new reactors, or seriously planning to build new ones:[2]
France
Finland
Slovakia
United Kingdom
Poland (the biggest European nation to have never had nuclear power plants)
Hungary
Romania
Czech Republic
Bulgaria
Lithuania[3]
Slovenian plans to expand Krško plant seem to have been dropped, instead a 20 years life extension is under evaluation. EPR new reactors under construction in Finland and France have been delayed and are running over-budget.[4] Similar problems are for new VVR reactors under construction in Slovakia, which are anyway slowly closing to completion.
Several countries, among the ones owning nuclear power plants, have anyway expanded their nuclear power generation capacity by just upgrading existing reactors. Such upgrades granted from 10% to 29% more power per unit.[5]
Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany has permanently shut down eight of its reactors and pledged to close the rest by 2022;[6] but difficulties, costs and subsequent critics of planned energy transition could potentially harm this policy.[7][8] Italy voted twice, in 1987 to make more difficult to build new plants (the vote was extensively interpreted by following governments as a total repeal of nuclear power plants, leading to the sudden shut down of all Italian operating reactors within few years), and in 2011 to keep their country non-nuclear.[9] Switzerland and Spain have banned the construction of new reactors.[10] Belgium is considering phasing out its nuclear plants.[10] France, frequently heralded as a nuclear commercial model for the world, was as of 2011 locked in a national debate over a partial nuclear phase-out.[10] In the same time, however, Sweden embraced a nuclear phase-out policy as early as 1980, so preceding all these countries; but only the two oldest reactors, of twelve, were shut down at their end of life; while in 2010 Swedish Parliament repealed this policy.[11]
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Jesus, you are from Yurp too (just noticing)....
