My personal experience is that I just translate one idiom from one language / culture to the other without realising and still expect ppl. to know what I mean.

That often works in my experience, and can lead to funny moments

Just because you have a national solution that’s crap doesn’t mean the rest of us should agree to have a European solution that’s crap too, even if it’s less crap than what you already have.

I’m not knowledgeable enough about this particular project to be able to give an informed opinion as to whether it’s bad or good (though the article raises some points I would consider concerning), I was merely reflecting that there can be enough valid criticism of the implementation of something that’s good and useful in theory to make it simply bad, and that not every criticism can be dismissed by saying something is better than nothing.

Bad is the enemy of good, too

It is absolutely pilotable, but it generally doesn’t make sense economically to do so: most of the cost of electricity production is fixed regardless of the output.

EDF says they are able to make their reactors go up or down by 80% in 30 minutes, it’s not as good as hydro or gas but it’s certainly something

Radioactive waste is obviously dangerous (though to varying degrees, most of it, by volume, is very weakly contaminated if at all), but so are all the chemical wastes from processing ores etc, and for some reason we don’t talk about keeping these secured for as long as they’re dangerous (and unlike radioactive waste, they don’t necessarily become less dangerous over time). And the volume of chemical waste is way higher.

Thinking about nuclear waste is good, but in the same process, you should also think about the environmental damage necessary to produce solar panels. A rarely depicted advantage of nuclear is the relative small amount of material needed to produce that amount of power (including the building of the power plant), and that has huge consequences for pollution upstream, and therefore, safety.

Edit: to be clear, I am not against solar panels in any way, but we should be sure to include all the relevant measurements for all technologies