"This draft law responds to the urgency of the crisis," government spokesman Olivier Veran said after a cabinet meeting that adopted the draft bill on Wednesday.France's nuclear fleet has come under scrutiny, with a wave of repairs at power stations forcing a record number of reactors offline and sending nuclear power production to a 30-year low, exacerbating Europe's energy crisis."It is a draft law to ease administrative authorisations on nuclear reactors that will be built near existing nuclear plants," she said, adding this concerned administrative issues, not the decisions to build the plants.Energy giant EDF (EDF.PA) plans to construct the reactors on three existing sites: two at Penly, in the Seine-Maritime administrative department, two at Gravelines, in northern France, and two in either Bugey, eastern France, or Tricastin, in southern France."Nuclear generates waste that will remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years and the nuclear plans are vulnerable to climate as well as to geopolitical crisis, as is evident in Ukraine," it said."