Greece to explore use of nuclear power in energy mix, PM says today at the "Nuclear Energy Summit" held in Paris. What do you think of Greece's current nuclear shift, in both energy and defense?

> Is nuclear energy not going into the European energy stock exchange? It is. We didn’t see any change for the better through renewables, why would we see it through nuclear? The free market will regulate towards maintaining surplus gains. We will not gain anything from being producers because the nuclear plant will be private owned and they’d much rather export the product. The contract our government will be offered to sign is most certainly going to be exploitative in nature, offering little to us as hosts. Storage for renewables is a more valid, pragmatical option to be discussing. We have plenty of renewables but we don’t store the excess energy we produce so at night or when there’s no wind we’re falling back on the *very* expensive natural gas. That’s why our energy is so expensive. Storage is part of the solution, but it’s only a small part. Natural gas as the baseline needs to go, and I don’t see you proposing anything that could replace it - you’re just picking the absolute worst case scenario for nuclear and presenting it as a fact. Yet you take the absolute best case for storage + renewables, and ignore that that doesn’t come close to solving the baseline issue.   > A nuclear plant in Greece will not take 10 years, it would take a lot more considering the bureaucracy, lack of expertise, negative stance of citizens because of environmental concerns. Which are valid for many reasons, just because nuclear has barely made “green” status it doesn’t mean it’s not destroying environment in various ways. Record stays that there hasn’t been a single project in Greece that’s been completed without delays and inflated end cost. Oh, and mismanaged, either by Greeks or anyone else. Delays, inflated cost, all of that happens everywhere, even China/Japan/Korea. It’s not a uniquely Greek thing. You know how people spoke about the Thessaloniki metro like it’s something emblematic of the Greek states failures? Those people couldn’t be bothered to spend 5 minutes googling to find out that the Thessaloniki metro was *a pretty average timeline for a metro of that scale* (outside China). 19 years (because the *actual* start date is 2006) is respectable for a metro with massive tunnels, multiple station redesigns, funding issues, and work stops for artifacts.  It is certainly worse in Greece because we’re a generally disorganized group who likes our handshake deals and don’t like contracts and documentation, but that’s changing too. The right partner is critical for this - and if the French are involved, I feel really confident about it. They’ve got nuclear infrastructure down to a science.