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‘Without nuclear, it will be almost impossible to decarbonize by 2050’, UN atomic energy chief

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2024-11-28

The issue of spent fuel, the highly radioactive waste produced by the process of producing energy in nuclear power plants, has also been periodically raised as a cause for concern.

But the image of nuclear power got a boost at the 2023 UN climate conference in Dubai (COP28), when 198 countries included nuclear energy in the list of low emission technologies that need to be scaled up if we're to end our reliance on fossil fuels.

Nuclear is already playing a big role in clean energy delivery; more than a third of clean, CO2 free energy produced today in the world is nuclear. In Europe, where I live, it’s half. So, it is already part of the solution.

The fact the nuclear energy was included alongside renewables at the 2023 Dubai conference was a major step. A number of important countries pledged to triple their own percentage of nuclear in their energy mix.

I don’t think that this a renaissance of nuclear, but a return to realism. The International Panel on Climate Change, which is a gathering of the greatest and the brightest scientists from all over the world studying climate issues, has recognized that, without nuclear energy, it will be almost impossible to decarbonize by 2050.

The news comes from: https://news.un.org/en/interview/2024/06/1151006