A HIGH-END BET ON NUCLEAR POWER

摘要

Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive of the French nuclear giant Areva, is getting close to the payoff on a colossal, decade-long bet. In 2001, when she engineered the three-way merger that turned Areva into a one-stop shop selling nuclear technology to the world, many found the idea far-fetched. The U.S. hadn't ordered a nuclear plant since the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. And after Chernobyl in 1986, business dried up just about everywhere outside pro-nuclear France. There are 436 reactors operating in the world today, just 20 more than in 1990. Where would her customers come from?