As social scientists study these two new family form, they will be able to tell us more about the future of the nuclear family in the post-industrial age.
"All nuclear operators," Moody's Investors Service warned in an early April report, "will suffer the consequences that emerge from a post-Fukushima environment."
Ms Lauvergeon, who is credited with rehabilitating the image of nuclear power over the past decade, is considered the industry's perfect ambassador post-Fukushima.