You are absolutely right! The last French presidents who cared about the people in the long term were De Gaulle and Pompidou. Since then, all the others think only of their re-election and getting rich.
- 1945: De Gaulle launches nuclear power in France
- 1957-1972: 9 generators commissioned
- 1973: 8% of production is nuclear
- 2016: 80% of production is nuclear
But the Germans don't like that French industrialists have much cheaper electricity than theirs.
- 1999 and 2007: creation of artificial competitors to EDF (we are then told that it is so that we pay less... Really? )
- 2019-2020 To please the Germans, Macron shuts down 2 power plants and schedules the closure of 12 others. It also stops the ASTRID project which makes it possible to reuse waste from old power plants and wants to reduce nuclear power to 50% instead of 80.
And now Macron wants us to believe that he had the good idea to relaunch nuclear power! I have a hard time trusting him...