Nuclear return to Europe

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This is a political and energetic change in Belgium. On May 15, the country decided to repeal its law on progressive abandonment of nuclear power.

The text recognized by representatives will further predict the possibility of re -enactment of nuclear power in the future, with the possibility of creating new centers.

In 2003, Belgium decided to gradually suppress its seven reactors between 2015 and 2025.

Oh Current government He decided to return to this commitment to face the current challenges. “We know that this is a low carbon energy source, that is, we can accomplish our European climate goals, but this is the source of plenty of energy,” The explanation was made by Belgium Energy Minister Mathiu Bheed.

“We have three goals shared by our European allies: the safety of the approval, the controlled price and the low carbon energy. And the nuclear power fills these three criteria,” he concluded.

The choice of Belgium is not an isolated choice in the EU, which is a part of a political changing that crosses other member states.

Brussels Free University (ULP) Energy Geology Political Professor Adel El Kamal explains that this new strategy is inherently incorporated into the geopolitical state of life and gas. “Naturally, All we can do to become independent of gasWe have to do that. Nuclear power is a way to do so, ”he says.

There are about one hundred nuclear reactors in 12 countries, including Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

Almost a quarter of the EU is from nuclear power.

Member states review their position

However, this dynamic technology that is supportive of the atom expands to countries that do not depend, or do not depend on this technology.

Germany is seen as the starting point for potential change at the European level. In 2011, the country gradually promised to abandon nuclear power, thus strengthened the voice of the anti -nuclear movement in the EU. This purpose ended in April 2023 The last three central.

During the election campaign of the beginning of the year, the new Chancellor Friedrich Mers promised Read the opportunity to re -activate this field. But later, the ruler acknowledged that it was impossible to return to nuclear power, thus dividing the government coalition that leads it.

However, the propaganda promise of Freederic Merce refers to the deepest ideological disintegration in the German political landscape.

Italy is also considering Re -introduction of nuclear power. In the late 1980s, Rome decided to end nuclear power, but the Prime Minister Georgia Meloni government set a deadline for 2030 to return to nuclear power.

The coalition government argues that this source will help ensure the country’s energy safety and achieve the environmental purposes of Dicarbanization.

For similar reasons, Polish launched a vast nuclear project. In 2022, Warsaw decided to build its first power center, and the first furnace runs for 2033.

Denmark should be included in the list of countries that do not want to retreat on the atom.

Copenhagen claims to accept the law in the same direction on the same day of Belgium, and Sweden wants to strengthen its nuclear power sector.

In Spain, the government is pressing to reconsider the abandonment of nuclear power Gigantic blackout April is not the end.

A long -term choice

Adel El Kamal, the general secretary of the European Energy Research Alliance (Era), recommends two strategies to return to nuclear power, which are not unique, but are very different in their development.

“First, expand the existing facilities as much as possible. In this case I would say that if it is possible to do it under well -established safety conditions, it should be done as much as possible.

“On the other hand, it is very complicated to resume a new nuclear power sector or restart the construction of the new furnace, because, first of all, the budgets involved are very high,” he continues. “Then there is time to create an electric center. It takes about ten years.”

Construction time may be the biggest challenge to give the urgency of strategic autonomy due to climate change. “Renewable energies work very fast.”

Creating a nuclear industry is a long -term vision, which means more than a decade expect the price of different energy resources. However, as Adel El Calol is pointed out, renewable energies are based on the logic of the costs and the growing technology, “In mature technologies, such as nuclear power, the costs depend on raw materials, ie, cement, steel, ie raw materials. Its cost will increase.”

But for the teacher, atomic and renewable energies are not contradictory strategies, but rather, they may be perfect.

To try to bring security to this sector, Belgian Energy Minister Mathiu Bheed advises to create common projects and many state investments “They will reduce costs, but also ensure investments to give companies confidence”.