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No, it is a hypothesis of mine, that a large volcano eruption may disrupt the function of solar within a large area that was affected and which depends on solar energy. A particular example may be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

A single "year without summer" may be the fatal blow to a society basing their energy on solar energy, so I hypothesize.

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I don't think nuclear is much more resistant against forces of nature than solar/wind are... An INES level 7 accident in France could cause a similar outage in France's nuclear capacity (similar to Japan's nuclear lost decade). Or massive droughts could cause nationwide nuclear outages due to a lack of cooling water. Having a mix of nuclear/solar/wind with hydrogen as a "battery" in an EU super grid seems like a good way to mitigate the risks.

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