What future for nuclear power?

The Nogent-sur-Seine nuclear power station (photo illustration).

AFP / Francois Nascimbeni

By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

Twenty years ago to the day, the Chernobyl plant closed, symbol of the most serious nuclear disaster of the 20th century, which occurred in 1986.

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Twenty years later, what does nuclear energy represent in the world today?

It is not in decline, and this in particular in the name of the fight against global warming because nuclear power produces very little greenhouse gas.

But do the security conditions allow us to capitalize on this energy?

What alternatives are possible to stay within the objectives set by the Paris Agreement?

With 

Bernard Laponche,

 nuclear physicist, expert in energy policy and president of the Global Chance association. 

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