So first it's not just EDF. It's also AREVA and ANDRA. All three of those entities had major scandals in the past decades and seem to have taken exactly zero le

So first it's not just EDF. It's also AREVA and ANDRA. All three of those entities had major scandals in the past decades and seem to have taken exactly zero lesson from them. I'm really not the person most knowledgeable/aware on this topic, this is just from 5 minutes of searching the web. 2008: Greens/EFA report says official "energy independance" stat of 50% of a lie; when calculated on final energy not primal energy, it falls down to 24%, and down to just 8.5% when you take into account that uranium is in fact imported; it also touches on engineering issues, staffing problems... 2011: As part of a Greenpeace report about EPR, two insiders reveal serious defects https://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/IMG/pdf/greenpeace-2011-05-01-briefing-epr_nucle_aire_su_r_a_la_franc_aise_-_chantier_de_flamanville_les_langues_se_de_lient.pdf https://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/IMG/pdf/greenpeace-2011-05... 2013: The post-Fukushima audit revealed no french setup takes such scenarios (no water/electricity) into account. https://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/IMG/pdf/globalchance-laponcheb-2013-les_accidents_et_la_su_rete_des_centrales_nucle_aires-citations_et_questionnements.pdf https://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/IMG/pdf/globalchance-lapon... 2017: EDF/Areva knew since 2005 that they relied on an unreliable factory for building sensitive equipment https://www.franceculture.fr/economie/scandale-de-la-forge-du-creusot-areva-et-edf-alertees-des-2005 https://www.franceculture.fr/economie/scandale-de-la-forge-d... 2021: A whistleblower denounces defects he's been silenced about, says he's a nuclear lover but torn apart by this worrisome situation and sues EDF for endangering people's lives https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/nucleaire/centrale-nucleaire-du-tricastin-un-cadre-denonce-une-politique-de-dissimulation-des-incidents-et-porte-plainte-contre-edf_4842217.html https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/nucleaire/centrale-nucle... And there's of course the many many many incidents we barely hear about, when at all: https://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/Nucleaire-des-accidents-partout?id_mot=116 https://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/Nucleaire-des-accidents-pa...