Rhetoric at the European Commission regarding nuclear energy has become increasingly positive, but proponents worry that it will not be matched by policy. Representatives of the commission’s energy department insisted, at a nucleareurope conference in Brussels last week, that nuclear power has long been considered necessary to the energy transition and is already a beneficiary of EU funding, while nuclear advocates and pronuclear politicians claimed that nuclear is still either explicitly or de facto discriminated against in a wide range of EU funds and policies.
EU: Nuclear Advocates Want Pronuclear Rhetoric to Match Policy
As the European Commission’s rhetoric around nuclear becomes increasingly positive, nuclear proponents worry that the rhetoric will not be matched by policies supportive of nuclear.
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