Areva is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power and renewable energy headquartered in Paris La Défense.[3] Areva is majority owned by the French state,[4] through French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (54.37%), Banque publique d'investissement (3.32%), and Agence des participations de l'État (28.83%).[5] Moreover, Électricité de France which French government had a majority ownership, owned 2.24%; Kuwait Investment Authority owned 4.82% as the second largest shareholders after the French state.[6]

In 2017 the majority of its reactor business will be sold to Électricité de France.