What do you mean "not working well"? At this point, right now, French NPPs are producing 24000MW of power (57% of all french output). Yes, it's down from the usual ~70% due to maintenance issues, but calling this "not working" is outright dishonest.
It's this type of exaggerated misinformation from German greens that brought their country into this mess.
The linked article is pretty matter of fact and I am quite disappointed that replies in this thread go off on weird tangents about "misinformation from the German greens" or "owning the nuke people". You might very well be correct in your argument, but the level of discussion is much lower than I would expect from HN.
The ever present German greens which apparently have the country of Germany in an iron grip even though they have less than 15% of the vote. Let's not get started on the French greens, whose representation on the assemblies is marginal at best, but apparently are the reason France does not have "tens of Superphenix reactors" by now (the large cost overruns and literal swiss terrorist attacks notwithstanding).
"greens" (no capital letter) in my post does not imply just green party, but a group of germans that always comes out of the woodwork blastnig dishonest arguments about why we need to get rid of our critically needed power source.
While it's not just Germans that are always coming out of the woodwork (Austrians are even more extreme), the anti-nuclear movement was always extremely loud in Germany.
It's this type of exaggerated misinformation from German greens that brought their country into this mess.