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No Nukes News, Oct 30, 2014: Zombie Alert!

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High cost nuclear jobs The best argument the nuclear industry has is jobs - but they cost taxpayers $5.8 - $14 million per job!

The World

☢ Au revoir, nuclear power? France eyes an energy shift of its own France is looking to undo decades of nuclear power growth and instead boost energy sources like wind, solar, and small hydro projects. To shift from 75 to 50% nuclear, as many as 20 of France’s 58 reactors would have to be closed. That would leave Ontario as the most nuclear reliant jurisdiction on the planet.

☢ Zombie Alert: Yucca Mountain Radioactive Waste Dump Not Dead Yet Waste that must be containerized for a million years is the “animated corpse” that will forever haunt our clean, cheap too-safe-to-meter nuclear power complex.

☢ South Korean Court Ruling Could Spur Nuclear-Power Plant Suits In its ruling, the court cited a government-commissioned study in 2011 that showed women living within five kilometers of nuclear plants had 2.5 times higher incidences of thyroid cancer than women living 30 kilometers or further from the plants.

☢ Fukushima Radiation Nearing West Coast 5 minute video interview with Kevin Kamps on the ongoing spill of contaminated water flowing into the Pacific and the impacts on the food chain

☢ Lockheed Martin’s compact nuclear reactor? Yet more fusion fantasy Nuclear fusion is the stuff of science fiction. Doesn’t Lockheed Martin know we’re in a race against time with climate change? It’s planning to waste years of research, resources and money that must instead be devoted to clean, affordable and sustainable energy sources like wind and solar whose large scale deployment already underway today needs to move to an even greater scale if rapid carbon reductions are to be achieved.

☢ Obama Promised a “World Without Nuclear Weapons,” But May Now Spend $1 Trillion on Upgrades Democracy Now interview with Elena Sokova of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.

☢ Uranium mining and health Why would physicians oppose uranium mining?

☢ The GPO calls on the Government to Cancel the Darlington Nuclear Rebuild 1 minute video with Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner

Renewables and Conservation

☼ Micropower’s Quiet Takeover Small-scale, low-carbon generation now produces one-quarter of world electricity. Besides being cost-competitive and rapidly scalable, micropower releases little or no carbon yet enables individuals, communities, building owners, and factory operators to generate electricity, displacing dependence on centralized, inefficient, dirty generators. This democratizes energy choices, promotes competition, and speeds learning and innovation.

☼ Time for a global treaty on energy efficiency Forget global emissions targets: heads of state should be lining up to sign a global treaty to double the world’s energy productivity. Eliminate energy waste by increasing energy efficiency.

☼ Kenya Opens World’s Largest Single Turbine Geothermal Plant Geothermal electricity generation is currently used in 24 countries, while geothermal heating is in use in 70 countries. El Salvador, Kenya, the Philippines, Iceland and Costa Rica generate more than 15 percent of their electricity from geothermal sources. Geothermal energy is regarded as clean energy, as the heat extracted from the Earth is negligible.

☼ Bangladesh non-profit brings household solar systems to millions of Bangladeshis The success of Grameen Shakti’s household solar system shows that the developing world is ready to leapfrog traditional grid infrastructure

☼ Wind Power Could Supply 25% of Global Electricity By 2050 — If Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Get in the Way

Take Action!

☢ Please send a letter to the Premier right now urging her to strike a deal with Quebec. Water power imports from Quebec can replace the Darlington nuclear rebuild at a fraction of the cost.

☢ Nuclear Waste in Our Water?! Please sign the petition to oppose burying nuclear waste on the shore of Lake Huron.

☢ Declare Japan’s Fukushima Meltdowns a “Level 8” Nuclear Disaster Sign the petitions calling for a global response.

☢ Stop OPG’s 30% price increase With a few clicks you can let all the ON Party Leaders know that you oppose OPG’s 30% nuclear price increase and that you favour lower-cost and greener options to meeting our electricity needs. Learn more here, sign here, order free leaflets here.

☢ Quebec imports can save us $1 billion per year As our new pamphlet explains, importing clean hydro power from Quebec is a much cheaper way to meet our electricity needs than re-building the Darlington Nuclear Plant. Order free copies today to distribute to your neighbours, family and friends.

☢ President Obama: support a nuclear weapons-free world, as promised Please sign the petition.

Events

☢ Voice of Women for Peace Annual Conference: Conflict and Climate – Changing Course NOW Nov. 7 - 9, Toronto

☢ The Politics of Decay: Nuclear Nationalism with Emily Simmonds, Wed. Nov. 12, Rm 140, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, University of Toronto

☢ Ontario Geothermal Conference Nov. 13 & 14, Gravenhurst, Ontario

☢ Summit for a Nuclear Free Future Nov. 14 – 17, Washington DC

☢ OCCA’s Jack Gibbons speaks at Green Party of Ontario event Nov. 25, Toronto

☢ Quietly Into Disaster Film screening Thur. Nov. 27, 7 p.m., downtown Kitchener with Angela Bischoff, OCAA and CREW

☢ World Uranium Symposium and Film Festival, April 13 - 16, 2015, Quebec City

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9 Significant Scientific Findings too Recent to Be Included in the New IPCC Report

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Average annual ice loss in the northeast portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 2006 and 2012 was more than 10 Gigatons. Photo credit: Nick Russill, Flickr

by C. Forbes Tompkins and Kelly Levin , reposted from the World Resources Institute, Oct 30, 2014

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release itslandmark synthesis report this weekend. The report—whichsummarizes findings released in Assessment Reports over the past year—underscores three major facts about climate change: It’s happening now, it’s already affectingcommunities and ecosystems around the world, and the most dangerous impacts can still be avoided if we act now.

The IPCC reports, released roughly every six years, are the most comprehensive, authoritative consensus on climate change among scientific experts. However, the cut-off date for literature for each Assessment Report was in 2013 , so it’s worth taking stock of recent scientific advancements and climate-related events that have occurred since then.

Below we discuss research highlights around four areas: sea level rise, extreme weather and climate events, ecosystems, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and temperature. While by no means comprehensive, these findings illustrate how the trends documented in the IPCC continue to take a toll and in some cases, may be underestimated.

Sea Level Rise

The Amundsen Sea portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has reached a tipping point and is in the process of an irreversible collapse. Recent studies conclude that we are now committed to an additional rise in global sea level of more than 3 feet from the loss of this portion of the ice sheet alone.
The northeast portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS), covering 16 percent of the entire ice sheet, was considered stable for approximately the last quarter of the 20th century. Recent analysis, however, determined that regional warming has contributed to this portion of the ice sheet melting at an alarming rate over the past decade. Average annual ice loss in the region between 2006 and 2012 was more than 10 Gigatons, or nearly the equivalent weight of 500 Great Pyramids. Considering the GIS is one of the largest contributors to global sea-level rise—and many models have not considered this area of the ice sheet in projections of global sea-level rise —this latest finding suggests a likely underestimate of future sea-level rise.

Extreme Weather and Climate Events

While the link between human-induced global warming and specific droughts, heavy precipitation and storm events analyzed in 2013 remains uncertain, there was overwhelming evidence linking human-induced warming and the severity and likelihood of 2013 heatwaves in Australia, China, Europe, Japan and Korea. These findings were part of the analysis undertaken by 20 different groups of scientists, which furthered the science of attribution of extreme events to human-induced climate change.
The world experienced 261 weather-related disasters and a record 41 weather events that each caused at least $1 billion in damages in 2013, according to Climate Central.

Ecosystem Impacts

A study published this year shows that in dry years, the Amazon basin – which plays a critical role in absorbing greenhouse gas emissions- loses carbon. If recent drought and fire trends persist, the Amazon may shift to become a source of carbon dioxide, further amplifying climate change.
The National Audubon Society found that of 588 North American bird species studied, 314 will lose the majority of their current range by 2080 if global warming continues at its current pace.

GHG Emissions and Temperature

According to data gathered at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the daily average atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide passed the 400 parts per million (ppm) mark in May of 2013 for the first time since measurements began. Before the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide were 280 ppm.
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production were the highest in human history in 2013, and 60 percent higher than in 1990.
Nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. 2013 was the 37th consecutive year that annual global temperatures were above average, and so far the January-September period of 2014 is tied with 1998 as the warmest period on record.

A Time for Action

The global scientific consensus represented by the latest IPCC report and recent scientific developments like those discussed above should sound an alarm bell. The impacts of climate change have transitioned from a theoretical and distant threat to a problem already affecting communities around the world today.

National leaders will be gathering in Lima, Peru in a few weeks to further negotiations towards a 2015 Agreement under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The recent science underscores the need for this Agreement to be a far-reaching success, as today’s actions will dictate the risks that we are forced to accept.

LEARN MORE: WRI’s infographics on the carbon budget and the consequences associated with different emissions pathways showcase the urgency of the problem, but also demonstrate how it’s still possible to limit warming to 2 degrees C and prevent the most disastrous climate impacts moving forward.

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Report: Tar Sands Producers Face a Growing ‘Constellation of Risks’ as Public Opposition Hits Industry’s Bottom Line

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$31 Billion in Lost Revenues to Date;
Tar Sands Expansion Unlikely to Proceed as Protests Mount

By The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, reposted from BusinessWire,Oct 29, 2014

WASHINGTON-(BUSINESS WIRE)-A new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and Oil Change International quantifies for the first time the financial and carbon impact of public opposition to pipelines and other expanded investment in tar sands production.

“They have a deep reservoir of committed talent from all walks of life: High-profile billionaires and regular workaday folks. It’s a group that is very well-schooled in the use of public-accountability tools, and a group that is right also in its criticism of the questionable finances behind tar sands development.”

The report, “Material Risks: How Public Accountability Is Slowing Tar Sands Development,” presents market analysis and industry data to support its estimates on lost sales revenue to the tar sands industry as public opposition creates delays and project cancellations. The report also describes other market forces that are putting tar sand developers at a growing disadvantage.

The report puts tar sands development lost revenue at $30.9 billion from 2010 through 2013, in part from the changing North American oil market but largely because of a fierce grassroots movement against tar sands development. The report attributes 55 percent of the lost revenue, or $17 billion, to citizen protests against pipelines and tar sands.

“Tar sands producers face a new kind of risk from growing public opposition,” said Tom Sanzillo, Director of Finance at IEEFA, and one of the lead authors on the report. “This opposition has achieved a permanent presence as public sentiment evolves and as the influence of organizations opposed to tar sands production grows.”

Steve Kretzmann, Executive Director of Oil Change International, said, “Industry officials never anticipated the level and intensity of public opposition to their massive build-out plans. Public opposition has caused government and its administrative agencies to take a second and third look. Legal and other challenges are raising new issues related to environmental protection, indigenous rights and the disruptive impact of new pipeline proposals.”

“Protests against pipelines are keeping carbon in the ground, and changing the bottom line for the tar sands industry. Business as usual for Big Oil – particularly in the tar sands – is over,” Kretzmann said.

A significant segment of opposition, the report notes, is from First Nations in Canada, which is raising sovereignty claims and environmental challenges.

Among the report’s findings:

Market forces and public opposition have played a significant role in the cancellation of three major tar sands projects in 2014 alone: Shell’s Pierre River, Total’s Joslyn North, and Statoil’s Corner Project. Combined, these projects would have produced 4.7 billion barrels of bitumen that would in turn have released 2.8 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere. This is equivalent to the emissions of building 18 new coal plants that would last 40 years each.
Tar sands producers lost $30.9 billion from 2010 through 2013 due to transportation bottlenecks and the flood of crude coming from shale-oil fields. Of that, $17.1 billion, or 55 percent, can be attributed to the impact of public-accountability campaigns.
The combination of risks facing the industry has the potential for canceling most or even all of the planned expansion of the industry in Canada.
Rather than seeing more than a doubling of output from 2 million barrels of oil per day to 4.8 million barrels per days — as the industry predicts — the report projects flat production levels.
Tar sands producers have lagged, with 9 of 10 leading tar sands producers in Canada underperforming the broader stock market in the last five years.
Analysts have recently downgraded their outlook for tar sands production.

The report also explores how smaller tar sands producers are having trouble accessing capital markets, how the industry is increasing capital spending even as it faces declining cash flows, weak revenue expectations, rising production costs and tight margins.

“Many tar sand producers are moving forward with large investments during a time of increasing financial uncertainty,” Sanzillo said. “One or two of these factors would be manageable, but taken together they call into question the viability of these projects.”

The report can be found at: www.ieefa.org/report-material-risks or https://bit.ly/material-risks

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The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), based in Cleveland, Ohio, conducts research and analyses on financial and economic issues related to energy and the environment. The Institute’s mission is to accelerate the transition to a diverse, sustainable and profitable energy economy and to reduce dependence on coal and other non-renewable energy resources. For more information, visit www.ieefa.org.

Oil Change International is a research, communications, and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the coming transition towards clean energy. Oil Change works to achieve its mission by producing strategic research and hard-hitting investigations; engaging in domestic and international policy and media spaces; and providing leadership in organizing resistance to the political influence of the fossil fuel industry. For more information, visit priceofoil.org.

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New solar power material converts 90 percent of captured light into heat

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reposted from Phys.org,Oct 29, 2014

A multidisciplinary engineering team at the University of California, San Diego developed a new nanoparticle-based material for concentrating solar power plants designed to absorb and convert to heat more than 90 percent of the sunlight it captures. The new material can also withstand temperatures greater than 700 degrees Celsius and survive many years outdoors in spite of exposure to air and humidity. Their work, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot program, was published recently in two separate articles in the journal Nano Energy.

By contrast, current solar absorber material functions at lower temperatures and needs to be overhauled almost every year for high temperature operations.

“We wanted to create a material that absorbs sunlight that doesn’t let any of it escape. We want the black hole of sunlight,” said Sungho Jin, a professor in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Jin, along with professor Zhaowei Liu of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering professor Renkun Chen, developed the Silicon boride-coated nanoshell material. They are all experts in functional materials engineering.

The novel material features a “multiscale” surface created by using particles of many sizes ranging from 10 nanometers to 10 micrometers. The multiscale structures can trap and absorb light which contributes to the material’s high efficiency when operated at higher temperatures.

Concentrating solar power (CSP) is an emerging alternative clean energy market that produces approximately 3.5 gigawatts worth of power at power plants around the globe—enough to power more than 2 million homes, with additional construction in progress to provide as much as 20 gigawatts of power in coming years. One of the technology’s attractions is that it can be used to retrofit existing power plants that use coal or fossil fuels because it uses the same process to generate electricity from steam.

Traditional power plants burn coal or fossil fuels to create heat that evaporates water into steam. The steam turns a giant turbine that generates electricity from spinning magnets and conductor wire coils. CSP power plants create the steam needed to turn the turbine by using sunlight to heat molten salt. The molten salt can also be stored in thermal storage tanks overnight where it can continue to generate steam and electricity, 24 hours a day if desired, a significant advantage over photovoltaic systems that stop producing energy with the sunset.

One of the most common types of CSP systems uses more than 100,000 reflective mirrors to aim sunlight at a tower that has been spray painted with a light absorbing black paint material. The material is designed to maximize sun light absorption and minimize the loss of light that would naturally emit from the surface in the form of infrared radiation.

The UC San Diego team’s combined expertise was used to develop, optimize and characterize a new material for this type of system over the past three years. Researchers included a group of UC San Diego graduate students in materials science and engineering, Justin Taekyoung Kim, Bryan VanSaders, and Jaeyun Moon, who recently joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The synthesized nanoshell material is spray-painted in Chen’s lab onto a metal substrate for thermal and mechanical testing. The material’s ability to absorb sunlight is measured in Liu’s optics laboratory using a unique set of instruments that takes spectral measurements from visible light to infrared.

Current CSP plants are shut down about once a year to chip off the degraded sunlight absorbing material and reapply a new coating, which means no power generation while a replacement coating is applied and cured. That is why DOE’s SunShot program challenged and supported UC San Diego research teams to come up with a material with a substantially longer life cycle, in addition to the higher operating temperature for enhanced energy conversion efficiency. The UC San Diego research team is aiming for many years of usage life, a feat they believe they are close to achieving.

Modeled after President Kennedy’s moon landing program that inspired widespread interest in science and space exploration, then-Energy Secretary Steven P. Chu launched the Sunshot Initiative in 2010 with the goal of making solar power cost competitive with other means of producing electricity by 2020.

Explore further: Yale engineer to build ‘hot’ solar cells

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Environmentalists sue over nuclear reactor’s impact on Columbia River

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By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press, reposted from The Columbian, Oct 30, 2014

SPOKANE — Three environmental groups sued a state agency Thursday over the effects of the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant on the water quality of the Columbia River.

The Northwest Environmental Defense Center, Northwest Environmental Advocates and Columbia Riverkeeper filed the lawsuit in Thurston County Superior Court against the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council.

The council in 2006 issued the water pollution permit for Energy Northwest’s Columbia Generating Station, which is on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The station uses 20 million gallons of water from the river every day to cool the nuclear reactor.

The lawsuit contends the permit violates the Clean Water Act by allowing water pollution at levels that violate state standards designed to protect public health, along with fish and other aquatic species.

“Experts from the National Marine Fisheries Service sounded the alarm about how this facility may be killing and harming endangered salmon,” said Mala Nelson, attorney for the Northwest Environmental Defense Center. “EFSEC’s blatant disregard for this input demands judicial oversight.”

The facility council declined to discuss the lawsuit, other than to say it will review it. “It would be inappropriate to comment on legal cases,” the council said.

The lawsuit will ask the court to invalidate the permit, which allows the nuclear plant to operate a cooling water intake structure.

The council issued the permit over strong objections from the National Marine Fisheries Service. In a series of letters, the fisheries service urged state and federal regulators to require modern water intake structures to protect threatened salmon from death or injury. But the facility council refused.

Energy Northwest has not been required to study the impacts of the intake structures or to modernize the structures since they were designed in the late 1970s, the environmental groups contend.

“State and federal agencies give a lot of lip service to protecting Columbia River water quality and species but when it comes to actually restricting the polluters, these same agencies are nowhere to be found,” said Nina Bell, executive director of Northwest Environmental Advocates.

The portion of the Columbia River that flows past the reactor contains some of the most productive salmon spawning areas in the Northwest, including the largest remaining stock of wild fall Chinook salmon in the Columbia River, the environmental groups said.

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Solar Grid Parity In All 50 US States By 2016, Predicts Deutsche Bank

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by Giles Parkinson, reposted from CleanTechnica, Oct 29, 2014

Rooftop solar PV will reach grid parity in 50 US states by 2016 – up from just 10 now – setting the scene for a dramatic increase in the uptake in household and commercial rooftop solar in the world’s biggest economy.

That’s the prediction of Vishal Shah, the leading solar industry analyst at Deutsche Bank, who says that declining system costs, customer acquisition costs, financing costs and rising volumes should drive significant scale benefits .

Shah’s prediction was included in his first report on the newly listed Vivint Solar, which is the number two installer in the US. Deutsche Bank considers its prospects are so good that it will at least double its sale in each of the next two years.

But it is also predicting big things for the US market, based on a continued fall in installation costs of solar, the cheaper cost of finance as new financial models attract more mainstream funding, and assuming that the attempts by utilities to curtail the proliferation of solar are resisted.

This graph below gives an idea (click to enlarge). In 2013, the US installed around 1GW on residential rooftops, little more than was installed in Australia, with a fraction of the population. But in the next three years the installation rate is expected to rise six fold by 2016.

Vivint, which had just 130MW of installed capacity at the end of June, is expected to have more than 4GW by 2020.

Vivint Solar is interesting because it is an offshoot of a home security company that has used its customer base and customer service model to attack the residential solar market with considerable success.

Rather than an on-line model favoured by rivals, Vivint goes door to door. It uses a relatively unique power purchase agreement model, that sees it selling solar electricity at an average of 14-15c/kWh – a discount of 15-30 per cent below the utility price in its markets.

Customers enter a 20 year contract with no or little up front fees. There is a 2.9% annual escalator, but this is still expected to track below rising utility prices. The escalator is likely to fall.

Currently, it only operates in 7 states where the grid price is highest – in the north east, California, Arizona, and Hawaii. But Deutsche Bank says its target market will rapidly expand as solar costs continue to fall and grid prices rise in other states. And Deutsche expects the fragmented solar market to consolidate rapidly in coming years.

One of the reasons is the availability of finance. Currently it comes through tax equity structures inspired by the investment tax credit, currently at 30 per cent. Deustche Bank says this ITC could change, but it estimates the cost of finance to fall from between 7 to 9 per cent to around 5.4 per cent by 2015. This will help new financing models such as yieldcos, solar loans, asset backed securities and retail bond offering.

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Source: RenewEconomy. Reprinted with permission.

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Who is flying drones over French nuclear plants?

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Eye in the sky.(Reuters/Sebastien Nogier)

reposted from Quartz, Oct 30, 2014

Somebody has been flying drones over nuclear power plants in France. Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said today (link in French) that an investigation has been launched to figure out who is responsible, and to “neutralize” the devices.

EDF, which operates France’s 58 reactors, said that drones were spotted over seven of its plants in recent weeks, usually late at night or early in the morning. The unmanned aircraft didn’t compromise the safety of the sites, the company said, but it has filed a complaint with police. France prohibits flights below 1,000 meters and within a five-kilometer radius of its nuclear plants (below 3,280 feet and within 3.1 miles).

Nuclear reactors in France.(World Nuclear Association)

Suspicion immediately turned to Greenpeace. The environmental activist groupdenied involvement, noting that “for each of its actions, Greenpeace acts openly and claims responsibility.”

Indeed, the green group hasused drones in the past as part of its campaign to highlight perceived shortcomings in thesafety of France’s nuclear network (pdf). These breaches led EDF to boost its spending on security by hundreds of millions of euros, according to Bloomberg.

Most notably, Greenpeace used a drone to film a paraglider dropping a smoke bomb on a reactor in 2012:

Greenpeace said that it supports the official investigation of the “large-scale operation,” including co-ordinated flights over four separate sites on a single day two weeks ago.

At this stage, it isn’t clear whether the drone flights are the work of hobbyists, another green group, or something more sinister. Nuclear energy generates nearly three-quarters of France’s electricity, the largest share in the world. The government has pledged to cap its current nuclear capacity, boosting renewables and other energy sources so that only half of the country’s power comes from nukes by 2025. If fears over the safety of France’s extensive reactor network rise, it might hasten the shift.

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