{"model":null,"photos":[],"thesis":"France dominates the absolute outage league because its 56-reactor nuclear fleet concentrates planned refuelling and maintenance in summer, but Sweden's smaller fleet — with only three large nuclear units in extended outage — produces the highest unavailability density in the data, revealing that outage-book magnitude is a fleet-size artefact until normalized.","signals":[],"entities":[],"topic_id":"disc-outage-league-2026-06-23c","confidence":{"score":null,"claims_checked":0,"provenance_backed":0,"unsupported_count":0},"entity_ids":[],"agent_run_id":"eadeda6722e44da6be3d28bf735da885","attributions":[],"blog_post_id":"bp_european-generation-outage-league-which-country-has-the-most-2026-06-23-6b1860","causal_chain":["Summer = European nuclear refuelling season → France concentrates ~35 GW of event-MW across its 56-reactor fleet, 7× the peer median of 5,000 MW","Large French units (1,000–1,500 MW each) undergoing multi-month planned outages create a book larger than Spain and Germany combined","Sweden's 31.9 GW installed fleet carries ~8,500 MW of event-MW from just three nuclear units (1,121 MW, 1,065 MW, 1,172 MW) → 266 MW/GW density","Normalization inverts the leaderboard: Sweden's outage density is 2.1× the median; France drops to second at 210 MW/GW (1.7× median), Germany falls to 8th at 87 MW/GW","Concentrated unavailability in both France and Sweden signals residual-load tightness risk if demand spikes while the outage book remains open"],"generated_at":"2026-06-23T14:26:48.336544+00:00","published_at":"2026-06-23 14:27:08.258904+00:00","prompt_version":null,"schema_version":"1.0","citation_anchors":[],"publication_refs":[],"related_insight_ids":[]}