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A system for producing at least one hydrocarbon fuel from a carbonaceous material, the system including:                a nuclear power plant;        a hydrocarbon fuel manufacturing plant, including at least an electrolyzer unit for producing a first hydrogen stream from water and electric power provided by the nuclear power plant, and an hydrocarbon fuel synthesis unit, the nuclear power plant supplying power to a power distribution grid to which electric power consumers other than the hydrocarbon manufacturing plant are electrically connected;        a buffer storage of at least one given hydrocarbon fuel;        a reforming unit for producing a second hydrogen stream from the at least one given hydrocarbon fuel, and a device to feed the at least one given hydrocarbon fuel to the reforming unit at a controlled feed flow rate;        a device to feed the hydrocarbon fuel synthesis unit with the first hydrogen stream at a first controlled flow rate and with the second hydrogen stream at a second controlled flow rate; and        a device to control the first and second controlled flow rate as a function of a current electrical power delivered by the nuclear power plant and the current power consumption of the electric power consumers.