Year
2025
Authors
DEQUEKER Edouard, HALBWACHS Catherine
Abstract
EDF’s nuclear power plants have historically been major economic players in their host territories, while being heavily dependent on local resources and amenities, whether natural or resulting from territorial investments. Facing climate change, EDF has been developing the ADAPT program since 2020 to prepare its nuclear fleet for the 2050 horizon. Conducted with the Urban Economics Chair at ESSEC, this program proposes a systemic approach based on seven “habitability levers” (demographics, waste, biodiversity, economy, water, land, landscapes) and two cross-cutting dimensions (infrastructure and governance). This approach is part of a “Corporate Territorial Responsibility” framework, reinforced by the climate emergency. It responds to the need to actively contribute to preserving long-term habitability conditions.
HALBWACHS, C. et DEQUEKER, E. (2025). Les sites de production d’électricité nucléaire, le changement climatique et l’habitabilité des territoires. Annales des Mines – Responsabilité et environnement, 2(118), pp. 77-81.