Ask Germany, they take both seriously. They are now dependent on natural gas imports. Guess where most natural gas is coming from for Germany...
Here are the wholesale electricity prices for next winter in various European countries. Look at the France-Germany spread! https://twitter.com/GoldbergNic/status/1542103521524424704
There's a reason why we had to turn on our old coal plants again.
And, all the while being a major electricity exporter itself (towards e.g Poland), Germany also depends heavily on electricity imports from... France's nuclear generators.
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/electricity-export...
TIL that Germany's inroads into green electricity production is more or less offset by its electricity exporting economy.
Also Germany was a major exporter of reprocessable nuclear waste towards France (2nd place with 17% in reprocessed material at la Hague, 1st being France with 70%). That's old data though, IIRC they shut down 3 reactors (out of 6) since, the three remaining ones were due to shutdown this year but this is being reconsidered because gas x Ukraine.