
Something's Rotten with French Nuclear
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Electricity Generators
E d f is the national electricity generator made after war a. And it's exclusively nuclear, almost entirely nuclear. I can't really say monopoly now because these stupid mechanisms for bleeding off the economic rents that these nuclear reactors should be making,. So technically it isn't a monopoly. But here's the thing, a lot of countries made these monopolies after world wor two Because it is an institutional match to the physical reality of an electricity grid. It makes almost no sense for a country the size of france to have competing electricity providers.
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