Marc Fontecave is chairman of the Energy Foresight Committee of the Académie des Sciences. Find the opinion "The contribution of nuclear energy in the energy transition, today and tomorrow"
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It is now urgent to provide a concrete answer to the question of the place of nuclear energy in the French electricity mix of tomorrow.
Nine years after François Hollande's decision, confirmed by Emmanuel Macron, to reduce the nuclear contribution to our electricity production from 75 to 50% by 2035, with the closure of fourteen nuclear reactors (including two at Fessenheim in 2020), there is complete uncertainty about this contribution and the desired balance for France's energy mix after 2035.
The ambiguity of this policy, due to the absence of a decision by the public authorities to build new nuclear reactors, is also fueled by the efforts made by many countries of the European Union to exclude the
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