France, which has no coal - reserves are estimated at 140,000,000 tonnes of low grade coals that are difficult to mine.
France used to have uranium about the time that Euratom and the infant EU were created
France is the size of Manitoba at 550,000 km2
It has a population of 68,000,000 or approximately twice the population of Canada
It has 22 nuclear power plants, housing 56 reactors generating 61 GW of power. Canada produced electricity at the rate of 149 GW in 2021.
One power plant for every 25,000 km2
One power plant for 3,000,000 citoyens
3,000,000 citoyens within 90 km of a nuclear power plant
One for the lower mainland
One for the Calgary-Edmonton corridor
Five or Six for the St Lawrence Basin (but they already have all that hydro from all the forests they drowned).
France used to mine uranium domestically but they shuttered their last economic mine in 2001.
Since then they have been buying uranium on the open market.
One of their least cost sources has been Niger.
Germany still has viable uranium mines in the east but those were shuttered following unification in 1990.
The German mines followed Soviet environmental and industrial practices and were geared towards weapons production.