Current events

This document groups several articles dealing with: cooperation contracts between France and China in the field of civil nuclear energy, the fact that the Copenhagen Summit ended without any either constraining or quantitative agreement, nuclear energy as an efficient tool against global warming, the one billion euros French loan for to-morrow's nuclear, the appointment of Yukio Amano from Japan at the head of the IAEA, a French study on the evolution of civil nuclear energy by 2030, the adoption by the European Parliament of a resolution in favour of nuclear energy, the first electricity generation from MOX in Japan, a US bill project aimed at doubling the electronuclear production within the next 20 years, the fabrication of large forged components in India for the nuclear industry, and the new EDF's research laboratory on material aging. An extract of F. Sorin's book (the Nuclear and the Planet) is proposed, addressing how nuclear energy may protect us against global warming