I fail to see how this is an indictment of either the nuclear industry or the French regulators. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
However, it wouldn't have to be much worse to become a major problem, one where a government would have difficulty putting the jhin back in the back. We know that, as the Finnish can agree, even with the best will in the world, governments cannot enusre that things are as they should be.
And when nuclear goes wrong, it is catastrophic.
And just cos the government pays, it still doesn't mean that dismantling and making safe is effectively costed into the current price of the electricity. Nasty legacy to leave for a civilisation that will probably be struggling with the post-oil mess we bequeath it.
So i'm just voincing my skepticism about the safety and economics. keep to the Fen Causeway