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Many (mostly indirect) costs related to nuke plants construction in France were not published and therefore cannot be taken into account.

Some were military programs aiming at producing weapon-grade plutonium (=> opaque budgets), part of them necessary to the plants. In fact it was the main political reason behind the French nuclear program, and the inherited opacity remains.

Part of this are R&D paid for by the taxpayer under other programs, many not financially linked to nuke plants, mainly done by a huge and very costly monster named CEA (its current yearly budget is 4.7 billion euros).

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