Last week, representatives from around 30 countries met in Brussels and promised to massively expand nuclear power in the future - including Hungary, Sweden, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Czech Republic, China, Japan and the USA. In Poland, which currently has no nuclear power plants, six reactors are to be built in the next few years. The next reactor in Slovakia is scheduled to go online in 2025.
Professor Antonio Hurtado teaches hydrogen and nuclear energy technology at TU Dresden. This development doesn't surprise him.
Tricastin nuclear power plant in France
Photo: FRED DUFOUR/ AFP
In the “Moreno+1” podcast, host Juan Moreno talks to Professor Hurtado about the reasons for this European comeback of nuclear energy.
For Hurtado, the reasons are obvious. “I also wish we could rely exclusively on renewable energies,” says Hurtado. »But that will be difficult: complete decarbonization by 2045 will hardly be possible without nuclear power. Hydrogen technologies will take a long time before they can contribute to the desired energy supply everywhere.
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