> AFAICT you think France has been caught short and infer that France is doubling down, etc I am not the person who wrote that France was doubling down. It is

> AFAICT you think France has been caught short and infer that France is doubling down, etc I am not the person who wrote that France was doubling down. It isn't. The money spent on startups was really lip-service in the context of the French nuclear sector. The article you linked to also uses the French word "enfumage", i.e. a smokescreen, which is indeed probably what most of those startups are doing.