''They only manage to get away with that much because they can import power from the rest of Europe when their reactors are undergoing the very regular maintenance that nuclear requires.''
France has recently had a load of trouble with nukes ------ low water levels in rivers, too warm water - and lots of cracking problems in cooling towers ------ inland nukes.
compounded by a severe shortage of nuclear workers.
Cooling not an issue for the English channel ones - they take seawater.
