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May 16, 2024 · In a key passage in his recent Sorbonne speech, French President Emmanuel Macron insisted that Russia must absolutely not win its war of aggression against Ukraine. To meet the threat posed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear weapons, he argued that Europe needed its own nuclear defenses.
Oct 15, 2023 · Their stand-off over how to treat nuclear in a series of EU reforms has consequences for how Europe plans to advance towards cleaner energy.
Analysis. Russian Nuclear Doctrine and Escalation Risks in Europe. Participants agreed that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dramatically altered the global security environment. They assessed that the entirety of Europe remains committed to supporting Ukraine.
- Bertrand Cassoret: The Engineer
- Julie Schweitzer: The Sociologist
- Brice Lalonde: The Politician
- Marco Sonnberger: The Risk Researcher
Energy-efficiency researcher and director of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Artois in Arras, France. Today’s nuclear power infrastructure was born out of the French government’s efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to develop a nuclear bomb during the cold war, and so a lot of resources were poured into nuclear research. That ...
Lecturer at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, USA, whose research focuses on the French nuclear industry. The history of nuclear energy in France is very interesting because it has created constraints. It has made the pro-nuclear side of the argument into the status quo. The industry has worked hard to normalize the use of nuclear energy, an...
Former French Minister of the Environment (1988–90) and founder of the Ecology Generation party. My opinions on nuclear technology and nuclear power have changed drastically over the decades. I used to be an anti-nuclear leader. I went to all the demonstrations and protests, but things shifted for me in 1988 with the creation of the Intergovernment...
Research associate at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, who focuses on the sociology of risk. In a 2021 study, my colleagues and I explored the relationship between climate-change concern and the public’s perceptions of nuclear energy (M. Sonnberger et al. Energy Res. Soc. Sci. 75, 102008; 2021). We analysed the responses of 4,048 survey part...
Jan 5, 2023 · By November, a record 26 of France’s 56 nuclear reactors were shut for repairs or maintenance – although as of January 2 that figure had fallen to 15 and is expected to fall to nine by the end...
- Tom WHEELDON
Jun 19, 2022 · June 19, 2022. PARIS — As the European Union moves to cut ties to Russian oil and gas in the wake of Moscow’s war on Ukraine, France has been betting on its nuclear plants to weather a looming...
Apr 23, 2023 · Nuclear safety regulator ASN says the effort will require something akin to a Marshall Plan, the US-funded reconstruction of Europe after the second world war. France, which employs some 220,000 ...
