France, no, but the Japanese had far worse a few years ago, not at a power reactor, but at a reprocessing facility where lax procedures caused an excursion, killed at least one worker as I recall, and caused some very bad localized contamination. The French came close only once to my knowledge when they had a rupture from some head penatrations. No injuries or such but the plant was down for an extended period as I recall.
BTW. TMI is the only "disaster" in history were no one was killed and no one was injured.
More people died in Ted Kennedy's back seat than died at TMI.
But, of course, the One-Worlders and their hand-wringing handmaidens in the establishment media have an interest in bringing the U.S. down closer to the Third World to make the "merger" a bit easier.
An energy self-sufficient United States is NOT on their agenda/