While nuclear energy is coming back on stage, reconsidering its role in future energy policies must lead to a renewal of the question of the nuclear risk management. Indeed, given the uncertainties involved and the general public’s high aversion towards the nuclear risk, a minimization of the...

In the nuclear industry, the operators have always benefited from a favourable liability regime concerning the risks they generate. Indeed, their civil liability in case of an accident on their installations is limited by a financial cap. For OECD countries, this cap is enacted by the Paris...

The coverage of catastrophic risks, and in particular of industrial and technological risks, raises multiple questions. As nuclear risk is considered to be a special risk, its coverage is not provided in a traditional way. One of the problems in coverage of the nuclear risk is that operators...

Face à la croissance de la demande d’énergie dans le monde, à la rareté relative des ressources fossiles et devant les impératifs environnementaux imposés aujourd’hui par la communauté internationale, la question des choix énergétiques nationaux devient centrale. C’est dans ce...