I don't see this as much different than what's going on in the US where most of the nuclear plants are running past their design life and have cracks in the concrete that they hand wave and increase the allowable tolerance for. Nuclear plants are very expensive to build. This incentivizes bending the rules and taking chances to continue running them past the point where they should be shut down.
Or the UK, where the reactor graphite has lots of cracks, but people need power and jobs, so now they're trying to relax the safety limit, you couldn't make this stuff up:
> EDF plans to ask the regulator for permission to restart with a new operational limit of up to 700 cracks.
