Nuclear stop: Dirty fantasies of the nuclear lobbyists at COP28

2023-12-03 14:35:05

Despite the failure of nuclear power plants in France, Great Britain and the USA, there are calls for the expansion of nuclear power – it is dangerous and cannot succeed.

Linz (OTS) – John Kerry, the former US Secretary of State, wants to triple nuclear power production by 2050. It is completely clear that this must remain a dirty fantasy, as the main proponents behind this plan, the USA, France and the United Kingdom, are currently failing with a crash their own nuclear power plans.

“The vast majority of the currently 400 nuclear power plants worldwide are outdated and will be shut down in the next few years. So it is not even possible to maintain the share of nuclear power in the world’s total energy demand, which is currently less than 5%, let alone expand it. Know that the nuclear lobbyists in particular and also about the radiation dangers and waste problems. Nevertheless, 11 EU states support Kerry’s initiative, which was signed by a total of 22 countries. The Austrian government must take a much stronger stance against this minority of states within the EU. This has not been the case sufficiently in recent years, as can be seen in the taxonomy regulation or electricity market reform. In this way, billions will be made available for the dying industry – money that is missing for the expansion of renewables,” demand managing director Herbert Stoiber and chairman Roland Egger of atomstopp_atomkraftfrei leben!

“How unrealistic the expansion of nuclear power is can be seen in France and the United Kingdom: The proud nuclear power nation France has not managed to complete even one nuclear power plant for more than two decades. The only French nuclear power plant construction site in Flamanville was built after years Planning and approvals opened in 2007. Completion was promised for 2012 with a total cost of 3.3 billion euros. In view of the delays – many foreseeable and even more unforeseeable – it is not yet possible to predict whether and when this power plant will ever deliver electricity. But one thing is certain Already the cost explosion: The Cour des comptes came to a total of 19.1 billion euros in 2020, including interest costs. Things are even worse at the only nuclear power plant construction site in the United Kingdom in Hinkley Point,” show Stoiber and Egger.

“John Kerry, by title the US President’s special envoy for the climate, but in reality a nuclear lobbyist, is abusing the UN World Climate Change Conference (COP) for the second time: last year he announced at COP27 exactly at the time when the war was about to end There was a particularly heated rage around the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that the USA wanted to build SMR shrink reactors in Ukraine. That was also just a short-term fantasy to get rid of funding, because that happened three weeks ago The USA’s flagship shrinking reactor project was discontinued due to a lack of financing. “Nevertheless, Kerry is not above making this new, this time even more absurd, push to triple nuclear power production at this year’s COP28 in Dubai,” Stoiber and Egger marvel at the nuclear industry lobbyist’s incorrigibility.