Nuclear energy and the Earth: ten keys to understand

Oil and gas world reserves are on the way to exhaustion and global warming is getting worse. This double threat re-launches the nuclear debate, indispensable solution for the ones, dangerous choice for the others. In ten chapters, the author shades light on the main questions that make the core of the debate, without jargon, and with the aim of upsetting commonplace. Can nuclear energy contribute to solve the world energy problem? Can it protect the Earth against global warming? Does it expose us to harmful radioactivity, to accidents, to an accumulation of unmanageable wastes, and to a risk of nukes proliferation? Is it advantageous for France? To each of these precise questions, the author supplies relevant arguments without ignoring the risks linked with nuclear energy but taking into consideration the precious contribution that it can supply to the worldwide economic development. (J.S.)