Post by @GeofCox@climatejustice.social

2026-08-16 08:19 UTC

"Six nuclear reactors were shut down on Thursday, August 13, due to the ongoing heatwave." - https://archive.is/4t4kH#selection-3347.1-3347.89 I think it's now clear that France must move away from nuclear power. It has saved a lot of fossil fuels emissions to date - but now, given the increasing pace of progress in renewables and battery technology, and climate-ecological breakdown rendering existing nuclear installations inoperable, France must take the strategic turn to renewable energy only.

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@Colman@mastodon.ie 2026-08-16 09:45

@GeofCox@climatejustice.social or they need to update their cooling system.

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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-08-16 11:02

@GeofCox@climatejustice.social There's another reason to revisit nuclear energy. As The Moneyed orchestrate a profitable world war for themselves, nuclear power stations become military targets. Look at how often Putin has attacked Ukraine's nuclear power stations. If Trump's fossil fuel donors, both foreign & domestic, get their way, the globe gets sliced into spheres of influence with Putin getting Europe. Distributed energy generation is prudent strategy because it removes leverage. https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

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@quinn@social.circl.lu 2026-08-16 14:42

@GeofCox@climatejustice.social I don't agree - building more doesn't make sense, but until there are distributed grid scale batteries, along with more distributed solar and wind, maintenance and operation of existing nuclear is vital for making the transition away from fossil fuels logistically.*But* even more, culturally. People need to trust renewables, and that takes time.

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