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He can expect little help from conservative European powers often in the pay of lobbies, including nuclear power in France, but also at home in Italy.
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Environment Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet countered, arguing that other renewable energy sources would not be adequate to compensate for the loss of any nuclear power in France.
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While the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl turned public opinion in the United States and Europe against nuclear energy, in France nuclear power never went out of fashion.
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Ironically, since Germany has shut down some of its older nuclear plants in response to the nuclear accident in Japan, they now have to import nuclear power from France and the Czech Republic.
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The NRC's last new reactor approval predates Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, all of which dented public support (and not just in America either: nuclear power supplies three-fourths of France's electricity, yet in one poll 57% of French respondents favoured abandoning it).
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As in Germany, unreliability in meeting power demands has necessitated importation of nuclear power from France.
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The same month he championed a successful bid by a chaebol-heavy consortium under the aegis of the Korean Electric Power Company to provide nuclear power to Abu Dhabi, pulling the rug from under industry leaders in France and Japan.
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France, after all, is a nuclear power with its permanent seat in the Security Council, while Germany is militarily puny and diplomatically still nervous.
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Their nuclear plans, in particular, besides infuriating Germany's power generators, are just as unpopular with France and Britain, whose companies stand to forfeit valuable German contracts.
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