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France / Structural Problems At Nuclear Plants See Sweden Become Europe’s Top Net Power Exporter

By David Dalton
12 August 2022

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Structural Problems At Nuclear Plants See Sweden Become Europe’s Top Net Power Exporter
EDF’s Chinon nuclear power station in the Loire, northwest France. Courtesy Marc Morceau/EDF.
Sweden has overtaken France as Europe’s largest net power exporter in the first half of 2022, as structural problems reduced French nuclear availability to historic lows, Energy analysts EnAppSys said.

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