Can the French nuclear industry avoid meltdown?

Nuclear power seems tailor-made for this day and age. It emits next to no carbon. It provides reliable baseload electricity, vital when sun isn’t drenching solar panels or wind isn’t wafting through turbine blades. And it does not leave its operators hostage to dictators like Vladimir Putin, who has throttled the supply of Russian natural gas to Europe in response to Western sanctions over his war in Ukraine. With memories of the…