Featured in Green leap forward – 02-2012

No oil, no gas, no coal, no choice?

French nuclear industry: As the world and its energy industries adapt to a post-Fukushima reality and the Fifth Republic gears up for a high-stakes election in 2012, it seems that the current climate within the energy sector is sowing the seeds of change that could grow into a post-atomic market in years to come.

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pv magazine

31 Jan 2012

The title highlights the popular French phrase to describe the country’s marriage to nuclear energy, forged in the wake of the 1973 “Oil Shock”. According to the Guardian on July 4, 2011, around “74 percent of France’s electricity comes from and it is the world’s largest net exporter of nuclear energy.” The growth of atomic …

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