> thanks to the Rickover culture — were ferociously focused on safety and on second-checking everything in sight. So true. This also explains why France never

> thanks to the Rickover culture — were ferociously focused on safety and on second-checking everything in sight. So true. This also explains why France never had any major mishap degenerating into a severe accident. There is an old joke: "1 worker opens some valve, 10 workers check that the valve is indeed open, 30 engineers study causes, consequences and ways to cope with this process". However nothing is perfect, and a major accident may also be triggered by some terrorist/desperate mind/military/... action. There are other parameters: hot waste, geo-strategic challenges tied to uranium, lowering ore grades inducing more and more polluting extraction processes... Moreover we don't know how to build reactors anymore upon a decent schedule and budget: 9 out 10 of those built since the 2000's are late and overbudget, and most other ones are opaque projects.