Alternatives #5: The renaissance of solar homes
Alternatives #4: Hydrocarbons, cocktails of the future
Alternatives #3: Geothermal modesty
Alternatives #2: Tomorrow's reactors
Alternatives #1: Energies, what scenario for 2050?
Quiz: Test what you know about sustainable development
Quiz: Checking on the state of the Earth
Game: Nuclear energy key words
Game: Energy Memory Game
Game: Evaluate your ecological footprint
Designed for sustainability
The EPR™ reactor due to its optimized core design and higher overall efficiency offers a number of improvements in terms of sustainable development.
It uses nuclear fuel in an optimized manner. Its uranium consumption is reduced.
Its core enables the use of recycled fuel (MOX) with great flexibility.
Minimum environmental impact
Significant advantages for sustainable development:
- 7-15% saving on uranium consumption per produced MWh*,
- 10% a reduction on long-lived actinides generation per MWh*, through improved fuel management,
- Maximum power output per site
- Less water usage thanks to improved thermal efficiency*
- Capability to use MOX (mixed recycled oxide uranium) and ERU (enriched reprocessed uranium)
- 30% reduction collection doses compared with the best WANO one-year median value.
*compared to 1,000 MWe-class reactors
