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Areva en Afrique: Une face cachée du nucléaire français

France's energy independence thanks to nuclear power is a myth: the uranium that powers civil and military nuclear power comes largely from the African subsoil. Raphaël Granvaud details the conditions in which France and Areva obtain it at the lowest cost, at the cost of political interference and catastrophic environmental, health and social consequences for local populations. As in Niger, a historic supplier, yet in last place in the ranking of countries according to their human development index. In an international context of intensifying competition on the African continent, capitalist globalization obliges, Areva has always been able to count on the active help of official representatives of the French State and the less appetizing networks of Françafrique to safeguard its right to plunder. Finally, the author reveals Areva's considerable efforts to ensure that the various elements of this reality and its nuclear dissemination strategy do not tarnish a brand image that it would like to be immaculate.

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