The atom, in addition to its decisive character in France's carbon-free electrical mix, pulls a set of industrial sectors upwards: chemistry, IT, artificial intelligence… The relaxation of State support for the nuclear industrial sector could nevertheless have a decisive impact on French defense capabilities.
In industrial matters, and particularly in a field as technical as nuclear power, losses linked to know-how can be very rapid. Delays accumulated in the construction of the Flamanville EPR bear witness to the difficulties of the French nuclear sector in maintaining all the technical mastery necessary for such a work, while the last reactor built dates back to 2002. A precious but fragile sector, reprimanded by politics: although the construction of 6 next tranches of EPR is still in the cards of the government, the atom remains the symbolic scapegoat of all the policies in search of "green-washing", for the benefit of renewable energies. A paradox, when we know the performance of nuclear power in terms of CO2, but let's move on.
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