It has now been 8 years and no end in sight...
And yet the French have been successful using Westinghouse PWRs!
In France, unlike in America, nuclear energy is accepted, even popular. Everybody I spoke to in Civaux loves the fact their region was chosen. The nuclear plant has brought jobs and prosperity to the area. Nobody I spoke to, nobody, expressed any fear. From the village school teacher, Rene Barc, to the patron of the Cafe de Sport bar, Valerie Turbeau, any traces of doubt they might have had have faded as they have come to know plant workers, visited the reactor site and thought about the benefits of being part of France’s nuclear energy effort.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html
That is exactly the key!
“Nuclear is accepted”
Which is it not in the US, nor just over the border from France in Germany.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/30/europe/germany-nuclear-waste-grm-intl/index.html