How Climate Change Threatens Europe’s Nuclear Renaissance
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Thirty-eight countries around the world, from France to China, have officially committed to using nuclear energy to combat climate change, building on it their decarbonization plans. But this summer, the climate struck back: record-breaking heat […] The post Climate change threatens Europe's nuclear renaissance. The problem is not just drought appeared first on Novi list.
Europe is preparing to expand its nuclear capacity massively to reduce emissions and meet the growing demand for electricity, but climate change is already putting pressure on existing power plants, through drought, extreme temperatures and the decline in river flows, and these risks could influence the location and way in which future reactors will be built, shows Politico in an analysis.
How climate change threatens Europe’s nuclear renaissance
European governments are planning to fight climate change with a majorexpansion of nuclear power. Global warming, however, is fighting back. Thecontinent’s ambitions for boosting atomic power generation, a centralpart of government efforts to meet net-zero goals and rising electricitydemand, collided this summer with the effects of climate change. Wilting heat waves and worsening drought plunged […]
Europe wants to significantly boost nuclear power in the coming decades, but global warming could complicate its plans. Extreme heat, drought and falling river levels have already forced several power plants to reduce production or shut down reactors this summer.
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