It wasn't for political reasons at all. The reactor design - EPR - was specifically designed to be a large reactor[1]. Paradoxically this large-reactor approa

It wasn't for political reasons at all. The reactor design - EPR - was specifically designed to be a large reactor[1]. Paradoxically this large-reactor approach was intended to reduce costs but has spectacularly failed to do so with cost overruns of factors of 3 (in this case) and over 5 (from Flammanville). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)