{"id":148742,"date":"2022-10-23T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/frances-nuclear-reactors-malfunction-as-energy-crisis-bites"},"modified":"2022-10-23T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:24:25","slug":"frances-nuclear-reactors-malfunction-as-energy-crisis-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/frances-nuclear-reactors-malfunction-as-energy-crisis-bites","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Nuclear Reactors Malfunction as Energy Crisis Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/frances-nuclear-reactors-malfunction-as-energy-crisis-bites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PARIS\u2014France is falling behind in its plans to return the country\u2019s fleet of nuclear reactors to full power this winter after a rash of outages, raising fears that one of Europe\u2019s key sources of electricity won\u2019t be ramped up to counter Russia\u2019s <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russia-slashes-gas-flows-aiming-economic-weapon-at-europe-11655393254?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">squeeze on the continent\u2019s energy supplies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear fleet was designed to act as the front line of France\u2019s energy security. Since Moscow cut the flow of natural gas to Europe\u2014plunging the continent into <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/europes-energy-crisis-relief-measures-come-with-high-risks-attached-11662553951?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">its biggest energy crisis<\/a> since the 1970s oil shock\u2014France\u2019s vaunted nuclear fleet has been about as effective as the Maginot Line, the French fortifications that did little to stop the German invasion during World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS\u2014France is falling behind in its plans to return the country\u2019s fleet of nuclear reactors to full power this winter after a rash of outages, raising fears that one of Europe\u2019s key sources of electricity won\u2019t be ramped up to counter Russia\u2019s squeeze on the continent\u2019s energy supplies. The nuclear fleet was designed to act [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}