A year after Fukushima: a panorama of the market for new reactors

The nuclear accident in Fukushima has, once again, placed nuclear safety at the center of the preoccupations of the public, policy-makers and corporate leaders in the nuclear industry. Regardless of competitiveness-cost, of the advantages that nuclear power has as an independent source of energy and as a positive factor in the fight against global warming, this industry's future depends on setting steep safety requirements. To survive and thrive, the nuclear industry must be safe and transparent. The Fukushima accident has showed that the development of a low-cost nuclear industry must be banned. Today the development of nuclear power is principally due to China and India because of their growing public demand for electricity. In the next decades the growth of the nuclear sector is expected to be drawn by countries already fitted up with nuclear plants that want to renew their fleet of reactors like European countries