How did the French manage to do such a good job with nuclear power?
“How did the French manage to do such a good job with nuclear power?”
Everyone used to be able to build nukes, but the French haven’t build new ones in a generation.
The real problem is the competition for STEM workers. In the 1970s the top graduates of engineering schools would go and work for GE, Westinghouse, or one of the big utilities and make the equivalent of $100K per year.
Now those employers are competing with a massive tech sector. They either pay engineers a lot more to get ones that are less able. These same issues have hit all major infrastructure projects.
By having the French government own it. How does that make you feel?