The bottom line is not there. First the cost (as this bristles some), I had already asked this question to physicists, not possible to convert a conventional plant to EPR, much too expensive ...
Everything has to be shaved and there ... radioactive waste is put where, dismantling it generates much more than leaving everything as it is (as Christophe had said elsewhere). It makes you wonder what nuclear engineers spend their days on! But where are they going to get all this! It smacks of the emergence of a "new thing" bottomless money pit which they do not know in advance what it will give! While offshore thermodynamic solar extends its arms! (We do not need to go further south, no need for 800 ° C to produce water vapor to run turbines, here too we must aim for the optimization of systems and the storage of heat at shallow depth which should easily be able to last 1 to 2 weeks !!!)
It would be well, for example, to multiply thermodynamic mini-power stations in the middle of the mountain (above the stratus layer!) Why EDF does not want to see more ahead in solutions for the future ...? How much would a nuclear disaster in France cost in terms of loss of economic fallout, loss of heritage value? It would devastate a whole part of Europe. Mash but it's really ultra-urgent to get out! Bravo to the brave Germany!
I agree with the point of view on overly subsidized RES
And nuclear power has not been "
subsidized"maybe? Stay at"
subsidize"still de facto, the elimination of waste and its storage and control of storage ...!
Thermodynamic solar power is beating nuclear power, whose final yield (all inclusive) would be <1 (as two Nordic physicists claimed to have calculated), they would do better to invest in everything that makes them possible. EnR with the load factor / management of the ad hoc network (therefore storage, WWTPs, etc.). Better to invest in bio-climatic habitat to a good size of eXergie (rather than a company which heats with electricity) !!! Better to invest in optimization to go towards society at 2W per capita!
Then all the expense of the reactor, with a neutron fast reactor fuel availability is no longer a problem.
You need "just" a molten salt which is not flammable in air and explosive in water.
Heat can also be stored in concrete blocks. No need for reinforcement for blocks, it stores heat very well and long if buried ....
And above all to have a very attentive eye on what C! A does in North Africa (which is the key to our energy independence).