France’s “revolving door” between nuclear power managers and politicians: big conflict of interest!

Liberation 2nd May 2018 , The practice of ” revolving doors” consisting of going back and forth
between public and private, without worrying too much about conflicts of
interest, is not the prerogative of the French elite and concerns all
sectors of the world. activity in Europe.

But according to a report to be published Wednesday by the group of Greens in the European Parliament, it
is particularly developed in France in the fossil and nuclear energy
industries. What explain a certain lack of voluntarism in terms of
ecological transition. This 82-page document entitled “Revolving Doors and
the Fossil Fuel Industry” , which Libération has procured, reviews the
“warm relations” that have developed in the main countries of the Union
between policy makers and large companies energy through these famous
revolving doors.
http://www.liberation.fr/france/2018/05/02/energie-les-portes-du-pouvoir-ouvertes-a-tous-les-vents-du-lobbying_1646907

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Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist

The climate change threat to nuclear power

By Natalie Kopytko “…………The final problem is droughts, which climate models predict will become longer and larger. Legal battles have already been fought in the US over scarce water resources in regions with nuclear power plants, including the Catawba river basin in the Carolinas and the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee/Flint river basin in Georgia, Florida and Alabama. These battles show us that adapting our systems – including nuclear power – to a reduced supply of water will not be easy.

The International Atomic Energy Agency advises the nuclear industry to build power plants to last for 100 years. Given that climate models don’t agree on what to expect within this time period, it is not at all clear how this can be achieved.

New reactors could use dry or hybrid systems with lower water requirements, but the costs of running these systems are likely to be prohibitive. Considering nuclear power plants already have problems with construction cost overruns, any additional costs are likely to meet resistance.

What is to be done? Most forms of energy generation are vulnerable in some way to the effects of climate change, and the fact that nuclear power is among them is yet another argument against a wholesale shift towards this source of energy.

The bottom line is that if nuclear power is to be used to mitigate the effects of climate change, it must also be capable of adapting to them. There are serious doubts that it can. more https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028138-200-the-climate-change-threat-to-nuclear-power/

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