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Germany sets the tone in Europe (at least financially) and used to refuse to pay for nuclear power which (since Fukushima) it does not want at home and which, deployed in other nearby nations, exposes it to risk.

I suspect a trade/swap: Germany will obtain something from France in return.

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I would say this started after Chernobyl. Long before Fokushima.

Indeed, however it was loosing traction to the point of "The phase-out plan was initially delayed in late 2010, when during the chancellorship of centre-right Angela Merkel, the coalition conservative-liberal government decreed a 12-year delay of the schedule". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#Chang...

Protests weren't as strong as they used to be, and didn't change anything.

Then the Fukushima major nuclear accident happened (march 2011), the population demanded a quick nuclear phase-out, and no subsequent government even only attempted to neglect it ( https://x.com/HannoKlausmeier/status/1784158942823690561 ).

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