French reactors are also almost all older than 30 years, and it is thought that constructing new reactors would be extremely expensive, as most megaprojects ten

French reactors are also almost all older than 30 years, and it is thought that constructing new reactors would be extremely expensive, as most megaprojects tend to be these days, so I don't think it is a fair counterfactual. Smaller renewable and natural gas plants don't seem to suffer from cost disease so much.