Economics of Nuclear Power - News

Events and publication associated with the CERNA's research program on the economics of nuclear power

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François Lévêque, Professor of Economics and Program Director

Lina Escobar Rangel

Romain Bizet, Ph.D. Candidate

 

News

June 2020

Citation of François Lévêque on Fessenheim closure in La Montagne. Read the article.

November 2019

Intervention of François Lévêque on Nuclear safety and economics in the Journal Public Sénat of November 13th. 

October 2019

Citation of François Lévêque on EPR worksites in La Montagne. Read the article.

February 2019

Citation of François Lévêque on EPR worksites. Read the article.

November 2018

François Lévêque was interviewed on the price of electricity for the TV news TF1.

François Lévêque explained  the increase of electricity prices and recalled the competitiveness of the current nuclear cost, on France Culture broadcast, "La Matinale".

June 2018

Romain Bizet presented the Nuclear economics research program at a seminar on "Information, Decisions and Research" organized by the French Ministry for Superior Education and Research (MESRI).

May 2018

French Member of Parliament Anthony Cellier quotes the research conducted at CERNA during the hearings organized by the Commission Parlementaire d'Enquête sur la sûreté nucléaire

April 2018

Romain Bizet presents a paper on Local monitoring and compliance at the International Industrial Organization Conference.

François Lévêque discusses the prospects of nuclear power in two French economics podcasts: Splash and Superfail.

November 2017

Romain Bizet defended his Ph.D. thesis in economics, entitled "Facing rare and catastrophic disasters: four essays on the economics of nuclear safety regulation".

September 2017

R. Bizet presents a working paper on the effect of local monitoring on compliance and safety care in French nuclear power stations at the Workshop on the European Electricity Market and National Energy Policies organized at Mines ParisTech. See the slides.

August 2017

R. Bizet and F. Lévêque co-author a chapter dedicated to the assessment of the cost of nuclear accidents in J. Ahn, F. Guarnieri and K. Furuta (Eds.) Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety, Springer. Download from Springer Open.

July 2017

François Lévêque discusses the prospects of the French EPR project in Flamanville on France Inter (in French). Listen to the replay (12'00).

Romain Bizet presents a working paper on the effect of local monitoring on compliance and safety care in French nuclear power stations at the 23rd Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in Athens. See the slides.

June 2017

Romain Bizet presents a working paper on the effect of local monitoring on compliance and safety care in French nuclear power stations at the 11th Conference on the Economics of Energy and Climate Change organized at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). See the slides or the working paper.

May 2017

Romain Bizet presents a working paper on the effect of local monitoring on compliance and safety care in French nuclear power stations at the ZEW Energy conference in Mannheim and at the Young Energy Economists and Engineers Seminar at Nüremberg Energy Campus. See the slides.

April 2017

Romain Bizet presents a working paper on the effect of local monitoring on compliance and safety care in French nuclear power stations at the 6th Latin-American Conference on Energy Economics. See the slides.

François Lévêque discusses the possible early closure of the Fessenheim nuclear plant in France in the newspaper Ouest-France. Read his interview in French: "Fermer Fessenheim serait du gaspillage d'argent public"

March 2017

François Lévêque discusses the restructuring of the French nuclear industry at the 12th Platts European Nuclear Energy Conference. See the slides.

Romain Bizet presents a working paper on the cost of nuclear accidents at the 9th annual conference of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis in George Washington University. See the slides.

December 2016

R. Bizet presents a working paper at the PSL research seminar in energy economics. See the slides.

November 2016

F. Lévêque participates to the EDF seminar R&D EFESE Macro Energy. See the slides.

R. Bizet presents a working paper on nuclear safety and the age of French reactors at the Young Energy Economists and Engineer Seminar in Edinburg U. See the slides.

F. Lévêque presents a paper on the costs of nuclear accidents at the Energy Policy Research Group (Cambridge University). See the slides.

October 2016

F. Lévêque and R. Bizet presented a series of seminars in universities in Beijing (Tsinghua, Beihang, Beijing Institute of Technology and North China Electric Power University) and Tianjin University. See the slides.

July 2016

Réacteurs nucléaires en Angleterre : le feu vert d'EDF. An article published in the French newspaper Sud-Ouest.

Publication of a short summary of R. Bizet and F. Leveque's working paper on ambiguity aversion and the cost of nuclear power accidents in the IAEE Energy Forum. See the article.

June 2016

F. Lévêque and R. Bizet presented a series of seminars regarding recent advances in nuclear power economics in Tokyo, Waseda and Kyoto university. See the presentation materials, here and here.

Nucléaire et renouvelables, on a besoin des deux! Une tribune de F. Lévêque, à lire dans Les Echos.

May 2016

Past, present and future trends of the French nuclear power industry. See the slides presented by F. Lévêque at the 2016 Platts European Nuclear Power Conference on May 18.

April 2016

Quels enjeux pour EDF dans les projets d'EPR anglais ? Écoutez les interventions de F. Lévêque sur BFM TV et LCI.

March 2016

Débat sur l'avenir de la filière nucléaire à l'assemblée nationale. Écoutez l'intervention de François Lévêque.

F. Lévêque discute de la situation d'EDF et de l'industrie nucléaire française sur RFI.

R. Bizet débat du nucléaire français dans Sénat 360. Voir l'émission en replay.

February 2016

F. Lévêque dans Sénat 360. une émission du 23 février à voir en replay.

EDF frôle-t-il la panne? Écoutez l'intervention de F.Lévêque sur BFM Business.

Les défis du nucléaire nouvelle génération.Écoutez l'intervention de F. Lévêque sur France Culture.

November, 2015

Towards a globalized nuclear industry?Read this column by F. Lévêque in The Conversation. (In French).

September, 2015

The economics of nuclear trade and competition. A presentation given by F. Lévêque at the Global 2015 International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Conference, in Paris.

Fessenheim, fermera, femera pas? Watch F. Lévêque discuss the shutdown of France's oldest nuclear plant on BFM TV.

June, 2015

"Splendeur et décadence de la filière nucléaire française". Listen to F. Lévêque on the french radio France Culture.

The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) invited F. Lévêque to present his latest book. See the presentation.

A first-step towards international consortia. Read this article by F. Lévêque in Les Échos.

F. Lévêque participated to a debate on the future of France's nuclear industry on the French news channel BFM Business. See the Part 1 and Part 2.

April, 2015

The French newspaper Les Échosmentions Romain Bizet and François Lévêque's recently published article.

March, 2015

F. Lévêque and R. Bizet participated to the International Workshop on Nuclear Safety held at UC Berkeley on March 23-24. See the presentation and poster.

"Nuclear reactors' construction costs: The role of lead-time, standardization and technological progress"
An article by M. Berthélemy and L. Escobar Rangel published in Energy Policy, volume 82, July 2015.

François Lévêque debates the French nuclear energy policy on TV.
Watch it on BFM Business and Arte.

"L'Après-Fukushima du nucléaire
An article by François Lévêque in the French newspaper Les Échos.

February, 2015

"Early decommissioning of nuclear power plants: Is there an economic rationale?"
An article by R. Bizet and F. Lévêque, published in The Electricity Journal andLa Revue de l'Énergie.

October, 2014

"Calculs et perceptions des probabilités d'accident nucléaire majeur"
A presentation by F. Lévêque at the french nuclear safety authority multidisciplinary workshop on the evaluation of the cost of major nuclear accidents.

September, 2014

"Fermer une centrale, ça coûte combien ?" An Interview of F.Lévêque in the french newspaper Challenges.

"The french nuclear policy".
A presentation by F. Lévêque at the 5th symposium on nuclear energy, University of Vienna.

"L'europe de l'Énergie attendra encore"
A column by F. Lévêque in La Tribune.

June, 2014

"Qui doit décider de la fermeture d'une centrale nucléaire ?"

An interview of F. Lévêque in Les Echos.

March, 2014

The hearing of F. Lévêque at the "Commission d'enquête sur les coûts du nucléaire" (a subcomittee of the French House of Representative).
See the video.

February, 2014

"Four controversies on nuclear power"
A presentation by François Lévêque at Bruegel Energy and climate exchange in Brussels.

January, 2014

"Estimating Nuclear Cost: Methodology and Econometric Evidence"
A presentation by François Lévêque at the Department of economics, Korea University.

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