The European Union will soon decide whether it will classify nuclear power plants as a clean source of energy, according to Bloomberg. I think it should. The New York Times reports from a French town on the border with Germany about the dispute between France and Germany on the future of nuclear energy. A nuclear plant in the French town of Fessenheim has been decommissioned, pleasing the Germans, but French President Macron has stated that he wants to begin construction of new nuclear power plants in France. France gets more of its electricity from nuclear power plants than any other country and is behind only the United States in the number of operating nuclear plants.
In addition, the Netherlands coalition government has said that
it wants to make nuclear energy part of its long-term green energy plan. It announced
that it will keep its Borselle nuclear plant, built in 1973, open longer and
will build two new nuclear plants, according to World
Nuclear News.
I was pleased to see David
Kopel on “Colorado
Inside Out” complement the
Netherlands by saying that the Netherlands decision represented “the only realistic
way for energy independence and to fight global warming.”
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