{"id":313,"date":"2014-10-20T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=313"},"modified":"2014-10-20T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:22:54","slug":"is-frances-love-affair-with-nuclear-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Is France\u2019s Love Affair with Nuclear Over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oilprice.com\/Alternative-Energy\/Nuclear-Power\/Is-Frances-Love-Affair-with-Nuclear-Over.html\">Is France\u2019s Love Affair with Nuclear Over?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">French President Francois Hollande has promised to limit the growth of the country\u2019s nuclear power, many older reactors have been targeted for decommissioning, and Greenpeace and other environmental groups have been relentless in their anti-nuclear campaigning. But until now, it seemed unlikely that France would ever truly rethink its love affair with nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Last week, it did. On Oct. 10, France\u2019s parliament voted to begin moving to undo decades of nuclear growth and to\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.fr\/20141010\/france-votes-to-reduce-reliance-on-nuclear-power\">reduce its importance<\/a>\u00a0to the country\u2019s energy mix. Over the next 11 years, France will reduce the amount of electricity coming from nuclear by one-quarter &#8212; from 75 percent to 50 percent. To do that, estimates are that as many as 20 of France\u2019s 58 reactors would have to be closed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #393939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;\"><\/span>The vote was part of a package of legal reforms in France\u2019s<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/french-energy-transition-law-cut-red-tape-renewables-171659655--sector.html\">long-awaited energy transition law<\/a>, a main pillar of which was slowing nuclear power production and then maintaining it at the new lower level before progressively lowering it over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is France\u2019s Love Affair with Nuclear Over?. French President Francois Hollande has promised to limit the growth of the country\u2019s nuclear power, many older reactors have been targeted for decommissioning, and Greenpeace and other environmental groups have been relentless in their anti-nuclear campaigning. But until now, it seemed unlikely that France would ever truly rethink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[263,333,334,387,579],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-energy","tag-france","tag-francois-hollande","tag-greenpeace","tag-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}