Smarter countries like France, which struggle to build the EPR, which has been designed three decades ago? Currently France is busy dealing with the EPR proble

Smarter countries like France, which struggle to build the EPR, which has been designed three decades ago? Currently France is busy dealing with the EPR problems AND coming up with money for their old reactors - extending their lifetime, getting rid of the oldest ones AND finding money for replacement reactors. The problem: this is all payed/run by the government -> the tax payer pays, but has little influence. We are not talking about 'free market' or anything similar. This is top down, monopolistic, corruption ridden. The current energy landscape in Germany already has been decentralized, is smaller, renewable, diverse and it opened up markets for energy competition - basically incompatible with a top-down, centralistic, monopolistic, government run nuclear landscape like in France. The new EPR is extremely expensive and difficult to built. The last generation is not running and it is already obsolete. Not so smart.