Marcel Boiteux: Builder of the World's Greatest Nuclear Fleet

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22 күн бұрын

Marcel Boiteux, a shy economist who escaped occupied France to fight the Nazis before working out the theory of electricity pricing for newly-nationalized Electricite de France, rose to become the greatest builder of nuclear power the world has ever seen.
Mark Nelson, founder of Radiant Energy Group, explains what forces shaped his mind, his role in the fateful "War of the Nuclear Systems," how he prepared for the oil crisis that triggered the "all nuclear" Messmer plan, and how he survived an ecoterrorist attack to construct the famous nuclear fleet that now lies underused and underappreciated.
Can France rediscover its greatest engineering hero, who died last year at the age of 101, in time to rescue itself and indeed all of Europe from its energy death spiral?
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@oleksijm 21 күн бұрын

The problem with the French fleet is European Union regulations, which tacitly aim at getting rid of nuclear energy in the EU altogether.

@FixItStupid 20 күн бұрын

No Matter What It's The Biggest Cancer Lotto Nuclear Is ALL LIES If You Look @ 41 CPM

@lv3184 20 күн бұрын

And what are those regulations?

@FernandoWINSANTO 20 күн бұрын

Decontamination, decommissioning of old reactors is not " low cost " by any means.

@factnotfiction5915 19 күн бұрын

@@FernandoWINSANTO however, the cost - high or low - is not the major issue; the major issue is the return on investment, the value of the plant. In the US, the cost of decommissioning is factored into the wholesale price, and as nuclear has one of the lowest prices ... we can see that the 'high cost' is not %-wise all that significant.

@asabriggs6426 21 күн бұрын

RIP Marcel. Thanks for another cracking episode with Mark!

@jwestney2859 18 күн бұрын

Very informative video from Chris and Mark. THANK YOU!

@Zgembo121 20 күн бұрын

Mark Nelson #1 🎉

@microburn 21 күн бұрын

So excited for another mark episode. Thanks for the hot drop

@doniehurley9396 20 күн бұрын

This is the best of the best of the best educational youtube channel just pure class

@shawnnoyes4620 20 күн бұрын

Nice overview of Marcel Boiteux - Mark :)

@scottmedwid1818 13 күн бұрын

Don't get me wrong, I have found most every Decouple Podcast video extremely informative. This, Mark Nelson explainer was extremely eye-opening for me. I learned a lot keep up the great work!

@TheSiphap 19 күн бұрын

Thanks for your inspiring tell of one of our great man, he is frankly unknown to the great public. I hope some French media can help popularize Marcel Boiteux's story and determination. When I hear Mark, I feel really bad about the last 20 years and how we bought everything from the anti nuclear movement. Hearing it from a foreigner is important, nobody in French medias fought for nuclear until 2020.

@briancam_2000 19 күн бұрын

MSM which is generally ANTI-NUCLEAR popularize Marcel Boiteux's story, NO WAY

@kowalityjesus 17 күн бұрын

I was really surprised to learn that these are not in fact the same person

@kielcemen 21 күн бұрын

Mark speaks like a revolutionary. We are lucky he has taken such a sensible cause

@FixItStupid 20 күн бұрын

Nuclear IS A RIP OFF & Cancer Lotto

@zwhitehead403 20 күн бұрын

Well said

@wired_toast 17 күн бұрын

Not everything is great about our capacity factor; it's also slightly lower due to load tracking, which has its own merits

@volta2aire 21 күн бұрын

55:55 The Shah of Iran-French nuclear connection.

@FernandoWINSANTO 20 күн бұрын

Attack against his appartment in 1977.

@stefanbernardknauf467 20 күн бұрын

When I worked at Electrabel they flattered themselves to be the world's best Nuclear operator, with capacity factor above 95%! Even then EDF was only at around 75% if I remember well. Problem is that it is hampered a lot by public politics, for decades. It's a much bigger problem than the recent anti-nuclear feeling.. this is just another symptom of its political dependance in my opinion. But you're totally right, the capacity factor of the French nuclear fleet is a shame!

@FernandoWINSANTO 20 күн бұрын

Why ... aging of industrial equipement is not a shame.

@stefanbernardknauf467 20 күн бұрын

@@FernandoWINSANTO I admit that I'm not following the issues in French Nuclear power stations, but I doubt very much that it has to do with ageing. Rather major deficiencies in maintenance management.

@VarieTea729 20 күн бұрын

@@stefanbernardknauf467 Yeah, EDF's maintenance schedules alternate between a refuelling and a more thorough inspection, every 12 months for the 3-loops and every 18 months for the 4-loops. That's normal, what's not normal is that the former take 6 weeks and the latter 3 entire months, if nothing goes wrong that is. And then every 10 years there's a license renewal inspection that lasts at the very least 6 months. I don't think such long maintenance periods are common anywhere else. The 3-loops in neighbouring Spain are also close to 40 years old but run at a 85% load factor.

@factnotfiction5915 19 күн бұрын

@@stefanbernardknauf467 The low c.f. is mostly about running the NPPs in load-following mode. Storage will make these reactors even more valuable.

@stefanbernardknauf467 19 күн бұрын

@@factnotfiction5915 hm, I don't know about that. There is some load-following for sure but France does most of load-following with hydro and some conventional. Though France also increased its renewable fleet, requiring more load following. Going down to 50% is due to outages in any case.

@Petriiik 20 күн бұрын

france is operating their nuclear fleet in load following mode, therefore they have low capacity numbers...if it is the only reason, is an another story.

@chapter4travels 20 күн бұрын

Capacity factor is a terrible metric to judge electricity production. It makes unreliable sources look much better than they really are and reliable sources worse.

@chapter4travels 20 күн бұрын

I couldn't sit through the whole thing but I can't imagine a scenario where electricity is too cheap.

@jeffbenton6183 19 күн бұрын

You're probably right. Clean electricity can get cheaper, but we're probably not going to reach a point where cost of electricity is negligible. On another note, I like to listen to these things while doing something else. It saves time and makes it easier to "sit through" (because I'm not sitting)

@louismechler4338 18 күн бұрын

it can become too cheap to pay for the system