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[...] France is a major player in the nuclear industry: in 2012, about 75 percent of its electricity came from nuclear reactors. But since the Fukushima disaster that same year, the country has been pushing to retire some of its older reactors (although not as aggressively as Germany did). According to Power Magazine, in 2014 France's lower house of parliament passed a bill that would have capped nuclear power at 50 percent of the country's energy mix by 2025. Since then, the cap has been removed and reinstated by legislative bodies, and while reducing nuclear reliance to 50 percent of the country's energy mix seemed to be certain, the timeline to do it was far from certain.
[...] As France moves away from nuclear, Japan is slowly turning some of its nuclear reactors back on. After the Fukushima disaster, Japan suspended its nuclear fleet for safety inspection, leaving the country with no nuclear power. Instead, Japan currently burns more coal, oil, and natural gas. In 2015, two reactors came back online for the first time, and a handful of reactors have been approved to reconnect with the grid every year since then.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday December 02 2018, @09:37AM (1 child)
Don't forget General Motors. Otherwise known as GM. We don't forget GM, do we? And the horrible Ignition Scandal. Big problem with the GM cars. Millions and millions of cars. Where, you put the key in the car. And it's like a rocket going off. The Ignition of the rocket. And the rocket crashing. Many crashes, fire everywhere. So many people dieing. Hundreds of people burned to a crisp. Terrible company. And now they're going to China. I'll tell you, they can go. We're much better without them. Because they're very DISLOYAL. And their cars are very dangerous. I will never ride in a GM car. For me it's Cadillac all the way.
My Father loved Cadillac. And I love Cadillac, it's an American classic. I had one with the very special license plate, they call it vanity plate. But it wasn't vanity. It said DJT. My initials. Very useful, very easy to remember. For me and my Chauffeurs.
And Cadillac went into production on two Cadillac-body limousines using my name. The Trump Golden Series was the most opulent stretch limousine ever made. The Trump Executive Series was a slightly less lavish version of the same car.
This began about 1986 when John and I were in Palm Beach. And I was saying "John, what Cadillac ought to do is come up with a design for an incredible limousine that has the big headroom and all of the assets that anyone could want."
Later, I got a call from John and he said "Would you like to get involved with this design project?" I said "I know nothing about cars except what I personally like............." But between myself, Cadillac, and John Staluppi at Dillinger, we went ahead and designed the car.
We built one, and we saw a lot of things we didn’t like. So we went back (several times), and this is what we produced. And we think we probably designed the ultimate limousine to be found anywhere in the world.
You can see the kind of quality there is. We left nothing out. I’m very honered that they built me the first one and, frankly, I deserve it. I really am very honered and I would like to thank Cadillac and everyone else involved. Great job, guys!!!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @05:32PM
The only car that could possibly have enough headroom for your ego would need to be a convertible.