And a big segment of the French public loathes nuclear: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/energy/article/French-bill...
The shortsighted and fearful German Greens are making that country shut down nuclear plants and switch to filty brown coal: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-14/coal-rises...
ITER isn't getting nearly enough funding, and it took a fucking decade to decide on the place to build it.
Europeans have the same fearful attitude toward GMOs.