No country* can produce its electricity only based on renewables. They are not dispatchable and occupy a lot of land. So you need a base. France decided that the base would be nuclear and Germany decided it would be fossil fuel. Not sure there is clear a cut argument that one choice is better than the other.
As to what happened in France, it is not related to the nuclear technology itself and could have happen to any type of technology. They built all those power plants following the same design at the same time and all failed the same way at the same time. No surprise here.
* Or maybe a country with a very small population and a lot of unused land maybe which is a pretty small category.
As to what happened in France, it is not related to the nuclear technology itself and could have happen to any type of technology. They built all those power plants following the same design at the same time and all failed the same way at the same time. No surprise here.
* Or maybe a country with a very small population and a lot of unused land maybe which is a pretty small category.