Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Management of Spent Fuels -- 1.1. Spent fuel management strategies and costs -- 1.1.1. The different options of the cycle -- 1.1.2. Characteristics of the cycle options -- 1.1.3. Economic evaluations -- 1.1.4. Deep storage as a preferred solution -- 1.2. Costs and methods of financing radioactive waste management -- 1.2.1. Introduction -- 1.2.2. Analysis of the costs related to the long-term management of radioactive waste -- 1.2.3. Financing the long-term management of radioactive waste -- 1.2.4. Conclusion on the costs and financing of waste storage -- 1.3. References -- Chapter 2. Nuclear Power in the European Electricity Market -- 2.1. The functionality of the wholesale electricity market -- 2.2. The price set by the merit order of marginal costs -- 2.3. Nuclear power and the wholesale price of electricity -- 2.4. The need for a capacity market -- 2.5. The carbon market and spot market in Europe -- 2.6. Accounting for the system costs in the merit order -- 2.6.1. Crowd-out cost of controllable power plants -- 2.6.2. Back-up of non-controllable power plants -- 2.6.3. Rates based on costs -- 2.7. The case of nuclear power and the ARENH mechanism, a hindrance to the market -- 2.7.1. The ARENH, a "canal lock" for removing rents -- 2.7.2. ARENH reform projects -- 2.8. Conclusion -- 2.9. References -- Chapter 3. The Industrial Challenges of Nuclear Power -- 3.1. Nuclear power, part of the energy transition -- 3.1.1. Nuclear power, the third largest industrial sector in France -- 3.1.2. The EPR, a nuclear technology of the future -- 3.1.3. NUWARD, the French project for SMRs -- 3.2. A sector committed to a dynamic of deep transformation -- 3.2.1. The restructuring of the nuclear sector since 2015 -- 3.2.2. The unfavorable industrial context during the first days of the EPR.

3.2.3. The Excell plan: a return to excellence -- 3.2.4. An effective dynamic -- 3.3. Giving visibility to the sector through a long-term energy strategy -- 3.3.1. In France: ensuring supply capacity and guaranteeing carbon neutrality -- 3.3.2. Designing an energy strategy covering all of Europe -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 3.5. References -- Chapter 4. The Economic Costs of a Nuclear Accident -- 4.1. Fields of economic analysis -- 4.2. Uses of nuclear accident cost assessments -- 4.2.1. Optimization of post-accident management strategies -- 4.2.2. Insurance mechanisms for covering a nuclear accident -- 4.2.3. Evaluation of investments for the safety of nuclear installations -- 4.3. Methods for estimating the costs of a nuclear accident -- 4.3.1. General considerations -- 4.3.2. Costs at the accident site -- 4.3.3. Off-site costs directly related to contamination -- 4.3.4. Other off-site costs -- 4.4. Application to the Fukushima nuclear accident -- 4.4.1. Synthesis -- 4.4.2. Compensation for damages -- 4.4.3. On-site cleaning and dismantling costs -- 4.4.4. Costs to remediate the contamination -- 4.4.5. Economic losses from agriculture and fishing -- 4.4.6. Effects on industrial production -- 4.4.7. Effects on tourism -- 4.4.8. Image effects on the agribusiness sector -- 4.4.9. Image effects on tourism -- 4.4.10. Effects on the electricity generation system -- 4.4.11. Macroeconomic effects -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 4.6. References -- Chapter 5. Prospective Scenarios from the Present to 2050 -- 5.1. Global energy scenarios and the role of nuclear power -- 5.1.1. A brief history of energy planning -- 5.1.2. The "new generation" scenarios and the role of nuclear power -- 5.2. Modeling nuclear power in the energy transition -- 5.2.1. Load monitoring in nuclear power plants -- 5.2.2. Methodology.

5.2.3. Technical and economic analysis of nuclear reactors in scenarios up to 2050 -- 5.2.4. Sensitivity analysis -- 5.2.5. Organizational, technical and technological perspectives -- 5.2.6. Recommendations for the section -- 5.3. The study "Energy Futures 2050" by RTE (2021) -- 5.3.1. Purpose and scope of the study -- 5.3.2. Consumption and production assumptions -- 5.3.3. Economic analysis -- 5.3.4. Comments in response to the RTE study -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 5.5. References -- Appendix. The Dismantling of Nuclear Facilities -- List of Authors -- Index -- Summary of Volume 1 -- EULA.