Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Why French Nuclear Energy Failed" video.

"Free market competition makes no sense when each country has only 1 grid..." I disagree. Competition in electricity generation still makes sense. Electricity distribution is a different thing.
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@davidstrelec610 I disagree. Plenty of essentials are handled by the market, e.g. food production and delivery. In most countries you don't see state owned farms or state owned grocery stores. How essential some product is isn't the deciding factor in whether it makes sense to be handled by markets or the government.
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@AngelicaAtomic But Flamanville 3 began construction over 2 year later than Olkiluoto 3 and you need to account for that.
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@maxkaufmann833 "A big thing to take away is economic liberalism is not always the solution." It might not be but e.g. ARENH is definitely not liberalism. "Public services should be owned and regulated by the government. Profit motive should be second especially in something as basic as electricity." I'm not sure what you're counting as "public services" here but I don't see a reason why normal market principles wouldn't work in electricity generation also (distribution is another thing). I'm not against government ownership of some generation capacity as such so the government owning nuclear plants is fine. However, the market should be open for any company willing to enter it and the price of electricity should be determined on the market.
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Is Flamanville 3 going to be even more delayed than Olkiluoto 3?
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