The will to power will return

In the 1980s, France started 43 nuclear reactors across 14 sites . On average, each reactor took just seven years to build. Forty years later, all but one of these reactors are still running, and they continue to produce nearly half of France's electricity . Can you imagine France doing something like this today? Or any other country in the West for that matter? The past is a foreign country. But why is this? Why did the West lose the will to power? A popular meme would explain it as the ines...