Skip the waitlist and invest in blue-chip art for the very first time by signing up for Masterworks: https://masterworks.art/intoeurope
Purchase shares in great masterpieces from artists like Pablo Picasso, Banksy, Andy Warhol, and more. 🎨
See important Masterworks disclosures: http://masterworks.io/cd

Into Europe: France's nuclear industry faces a problem, in the midst of an energy crisis, half of its reactors are offline and it is struggling to turn them back on. It's an industry that was a source of pride for the French but that now faces existential difficulties.

So what happened to France's nuclear industry, and can it be saved?

00:00 Introduction
00:37 France's nuclear build-up
02:41 The post-cold war world
03:27 Sponsored Segment
04:31 EDF vs Liberalism
06:22 The fall of France's nuclear Industry
07:36 The plan to revive nuclear in France

© All Rights Reserved.
Contact information:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter:   / europeinto  
Patreon:   / intoeurope  

Main Sources:

France's Nuclear Build-up

Grubler, A. (2010). The costs of the French nuclear scale-up: A case of negative learning by doing. Energy Policy, 38(9), 5174–5188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010....

Rapport Folz

Folz, J.-M. (n.d.). Rapport - vie publique. Retrieved November 7, 2022, from https://www.vie-publique.fr/sites/def...

The ARENH Mechanism:

The ARENH, regulated access to France's historic nuclear energy. Magnus Commodities. (2022, August 17). Retrieved November 7, 2022, from https://www.magnuscmd.com/the-arenh-r...

The difficulties of EDF (3 part series by Le Point):

EDF, Les Racines d'un crash : "Une entreprise normale ferait faillite". LExpansion.com. (2022, October 4). Retrieved November 7, 2022, from https://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/actual...

EDF, Les Racines d'un crash : "C'est l'union soviétique, avec un peu plus d'argent". LExpansion.com. (2022, October 4). Retrieved November 7, 2022, from https://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/actual...

EDF, Les Racines d'un crash : Les "Trahisons" De l'Etat Actionnaire. LExpansion.com. (2022, October 5). Retrieved November 7, 2022, from https://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/actual...

Overview of Europe's nuclear future:

Hernandez, A. (2021, March 12). Europe's Sputtering Nuclear Renaissance. POLITICO. Retrieved November 7, 2022, from https://www.politico.eu/article/europ...