1. Issues
1.1 Economic and environmental context
After much hesitation in past decades, renewable energy sources are gradually establishing themselves as one of the safest long-term alternatives to traditional fossil and fissile fuel sources, particularly for power generation.
It is probably the ultimately recent realization that we live on a small planet with limited resources and a fragile equilibrium, which has led the world's citizens to progressively prioritize environmental concerns. Today's challenge is to offer humanity real sustainable development, which means ensuring that all human beings enjoy an adequate quality of life, based on access to water, food and energy. In this context, security of energy supply, coupled with reduced pressure on the ecosystem,...
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French Atomic Energy Commission http://www.cea.fr
Nuclear France http://www.francenuc.org
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