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Nuclear Power in France
(Updated March 2024)
France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy, due to a long-standing policy based on energy security.
Government policy, set under a former administration in 2014, aimed to reduce nuclear's share of electricity generation to 50% by 2025. This target was delayed in 2019 to 2035, before being abandoned in 2023.
In February 2022 France announced plans to build six new reactors and to consider building a further eight.
France is the world's largest net exporter of electricity due to its very low cost of generation, and gains over €3 billion per year from this.
The country has been very active in developing nuclear technology. Reactors and especially fuel products and services have been a significant export.
About 17% of France's electricity is from recycled nuclear fuel.
Operable Reactors
56
61,370 MWe
Reactors Under Construction
1
1,630 MWe
Reactors Shutdown
14
5,549 MWe

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do you know why France is so hot on nuclear?

its heavily subsidised by govt to keep the electricity price low. but of course the public pays back that subsidy by way of taxes.
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