Yes, very few new NPP have been built in Europe recently. Quite a few have been built by Europe however. The french company Framatome alone, with 18k employees, is actively building 2 EPR reactors in the UK (+ preliminary studies for 8 more), one reactor has been finished last year in France and recently multiple were built or being built in China, India, Russia (although I guess that might be canceled).

Its also already operating the 57 french reactors as well as operating reactors in South Africa, China, Korea, Belgium, Finland.

Sure, the industry will need to grow, but claiming it basically has to start from 0 is ludicrous.