Brian, you are completely wrong. There is a wide front of peoples' dissent with nuclear power. WE DON'T WANT IT. So politicians are afraid to lose votes if they speak in favour. On the other hand, they try to work in favour of it because they get payed by the nuclear companies.
Mankind is not yet able to rule nuclear power. Also the Japanese plants were quite modern. DOWN WITH NUKES, for whatever purpose!

I was just going to suggest exactly what George said. Our governments pretend like electricity is some hot commodity, when in actuality the availabilit y of global abundanc e of electricity is already there and being implemented in countries like China. We could in effect fuel the entire world, everything that uses electricty or energy, off a Thorium reactor. Cadillac introduced the "WTF" a year or 2 ago which was a car designed to run on thorium, however an engine is not ready to be mass produced for vehicles. (Research and development is underway) 

Imagine a rock the size of a marble producing an energy equivale nt of 7,500 gallons of gas. 

This is utter nonsense. As someone else pointed out already those power plants aren't NPPs and the reason reason why they are reactivated is because of the cold winter and the wide spread of electrical heaters in france which results in all time high demand, which the frensh NPPs can't keep up with. The german power plants are reactivated to stabilize the power grid that is destabalized by france, selling electricity to france is very profitable right now.