France has had nuclear power for years... maybe the “Stupid American” IS justified.
To be fair, we’ve had nuclear power for decades too but we’ve been limiting ours to pushing around a navy.
I was in radcon engineering training today where the instructor was talking about there being (I think it was) 6400 reactor operating years total in naval nukes without a major accident or environmental release.
And if we built them today, they’d be much safer in design than the current plants that are operating.