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Ten years after Fukushima, what future for nuclear power?

2021-03-10T18:25:47.189Z


DECRYPTION - Faced with competition from renewable energies, nuclear power offers exclusive advantages. But the industry must succeed in lowering its costs to ensure its future.


The fifteen-meter-high wave that swept over the Japanese east coast on March 11, 2011 devastated the coastal nuclear power plant in Fukushima.

It has also erased a good part of the ambitions of the atomic industry in the world.

The decade 2010 was, for this industry, nightmarish.

Today, she believes she can be reborn, driven by the battle against global warming.

One after the other, major countries are announcing their desire to achieve carbon neutrality by the middle of the century.

They need to get out of hydrocarbons by massively electrifying their economy, and nuclear power plants do not emit CO2.

Can this carbon-free energy take advantage of the historic boom in investments flowing towards “green” electricity, while renewable energies are proving to be more and more competitive despite their shortcomings?

● Ten years of misfortune

In the low-carbon world of tomorrow shaped by the Paris climate agreement, the choice of low-emitting energies

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Source: lefigaro

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