> Germany isn't a great place to be citing examples from because their government has obviously been a massive headache for anyone planning out a nuclear reactor's lifespan.

Really? Worse than anyone else? Looking at the map on Wikipedia, there don’t seem to have been any reactors in East Germany, at least not at the time Fukushima made nuclear a dirty word again, and the post-cold-war political shifts was the only unusual stability issue I could think of.