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It was still a taboo subject two years ago, but no one doubts it today. Nuclear power is making a comeback. Since COP26 in Glasgow, reinforced by the context of the crisis in Ukraine with the explosion of prices and the concern over electricity supply in many countries, the atom has returned to the agenda of many countries.France , obviously, with the Belfort plan announced by Emmanuel Macron. But the movement is global. Great Britain, China, the United States but also other nations (Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, India, Poland) have vast programs to develop new reactors or are considering maintaining their existing capacity. The market for small modular reactors, or advanced reactor technologies, is seeing the arrival of new investors and entrepreneurs who believe in the explosion of these markets. In its scenarios of carbon neutrality by 2050, the International Energy Agency explains that nuclear capacity is expected to double by mid-century. The reasons for this success are threefold: nuclear energy is a low-carbon energy which makes it possible to decarbonize electricity production and many industrial uses in the future, it is a controllable energy which provides a stable complement to the production of renewable energies and which becomes competitive again. given the current price spike.