France gets 75+% of it’s electricity from nuclear power they are the world leader in percent of total power from nuclear. Their plants load follow also the world leader in that technology. They reprocessed spent fuel into more fuel. They store 40+ years of “wastes” under 3 feet of concrete at La Hague in an area smaller than a football pitch again world leaders in that technology. They have no shortage of electricity for high speed trains anyone who travels Europe extensively marvels at the efficiency of the network it boggles the mind why the states don’t have similar technology. Then you realise the US government is bought and sold by corporate interests and the airlines plus Boeing bride more than any train group ever could.
Nuclear power is one thing the French got right. I remember the No Nukes concerts that were popular during the “eeeevil Reagan regime”. Also around that time the Sane Freeze coalition, a bunch of hysterical housewives (Karen’s mothers?) who would hang out at busy intersections holding signs and making noise. Funny how since the madmen in N Korea and Iran got nukes of their own the anti nuke protests....silently...faded... away