The embrace of nuclear power by some leaders comes as the world searches for ways to slash greenhouse gas emissions that are causing global climate change.
Last Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a $1.16 billion program to develop mini-nuclear reactors, which he hopes to export to other countries such as Poland that still rely on coal, one of the worst sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Keeping nuclear alive, Macron said, “is absolutely key because we know that we will continue to need this technology.”
“If the European Commission were to include nuclear power in its taxonomy, billions of additional euros would end up in an energy policy dead end, instead of being invested in truly sustainable climate action,” Schulze said, adding that it would be a “wrong turn in climate policy” that would cause the taxonomy to “lose both value and credibility.
Raphael Hanoteaux, a senior policy adviser at the Brussels-based energy consultancy E3G, agrees that nuclear has too many drawbacks to be viable. “New nuclear doesn’t have a place in the net-zero framework,” he said. “Decarbonizing power can and should happen without nuclear, which pricewise is totally nonsense. Any new project of nuclear is going to be extremely expensive and won’t be online until the 2030s.” He added that “we have solar, we have wind, we have storage.
A rescue worker sets a flag signaling radioactivity in front of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant during a drill organized by Ukraine's Emergency Ministry in 2006.
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