The administration of this new reactor's construction was a farce from the beginning: they expected to be able to build this reactor in half the time and half the price it took when France was building 10 reactors in parallel, ie when it still had experience. There is no doubt that the estimation was not just optimistic, but unrealistic (not my word, the word of the rapport on the overblown budget of this reactor)
That said, it's still going to be a good amount. The danger that too many people do is that they don't understand the amount of power a nuclear plant produces, especially when they compare it to wind turbines or photovoltaic panels.
The construction of the entire French fleet of reactors was done for 100 billion current euros, and you can clearly see the effects in terms of CO2 (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/FRA/france/carbon-co2-..., starting in 1980). If you consider the changes in safety thresholds, rebuilding it anew is in the order of 300 billion euros. 300 billion euros is the amount Germany spent between 1996 and 2014 to build renewable capacity, and yet their emissions of CO2 barely dropped (https://www.statista.com/statistics/449701/co2-emissions-ger...).
A wind turbine or a solar panel is cute if you're talking about powering your own home (even though you'll need more than one) but if we're talking about an entire country with its industry, it's far from being a viable solution. It's always been a problem of scale.
That said, it's still going to be a good amount. The danger that too many people do is that they don't understand the amount of power a nuclear plant produces, especially when they compare it to wind turbines or photovoltaic panels.
The construction of the entire French fleet of reactors was done for 100 billion current euros, and you can clearly see the effects in terms of CO2 (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/FRA/france/carbon-co2-..., starting in 1980). If you consider the changes in safety thresholds, rebuilding it anew is in the order of 300 billion euros. 300 billion euros is the amount Germany spent between 1996 and 2014 to build renewable capacity, and yet their emissions of CO2 barely dropped (https://www.statista.com/statistics/449701/co2-emissions-ger...).
A wind turbine or a solar panel is cute if you're talking about powering your own home (even though you'll need more than one) but if we're talking about an entire country with its industry, it's far from being a viable solution. It's always been a problem of scale.