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Posted by Luke Weston on March 28, 2008

I’m quite a fan of The Oil Drum, and the very interesting posts and very lively discussions that go on over there.

Here’s a very good recent post about nuclear energy in France, and the potential gains from a nuclear energy renaissance (how appropriate!) in Italy.

The discussion thread is very very long - and makes for extremely interesting discussion.

If there’s one thing they know about on The Oil Drum, it’s EROEI:

“Reality continues to make a fool of van Leeuwen.”