I seem to recall reading the French rather then wholesale shut them down. Planned on keeping a Maintenance Crew/Skeleton crew on staff at the plants for a few years to ensure the plants could be brought back online relatively quickly in the case of emergency.
Well, apparently France can restart their coal fired plants for THIS winter…
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/06/28/energy-crisis-government-to-restart-coal-plant-after-power-company-tsars-warning/
I seem to recall reading the French rather then wholesale shut them down. Planned on keeping a Maintenance Crew/Skeleton crew on staff at the plants for a few years to ensure the plants could be brought back online relatively quickly in the case of emergency.