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Support to the national nuclear industry with research into new reactor models and safer industrial units. In addition, strengthening reactor manufacturing in D.
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The timescale to build new nuclear power plants on a meaningful scale is much longer (20 - 60 years) than the timescale in which we have to reduce CO2 emissions to almost zero (10 - 20 years). You have to scale up the almost non-existing industry, maybe develop new technology. Remember that fusion power is always "20 years in the future"?
The costs of new plants are exceedingly high if you want reasonable safety, even if you do not count the costs to guard and protect the nuclear waste sites for tens of thousands of years. Without massive subsidies, they even today will lose against solar and wind energy, combined with long distance networks and energy storage.
Regarding the question if it was a good idea to shut down the currently operating nuclear power plans, maybe not sure. But I have heard stories about people trying to build replacement parts for 40 or 50 year old power plans, with antique electronics, which makes me fear that those old plants are ticking nuclear bombs.
The abolition of the Euratom Treaty cannot be legally argued on the sole basis of the unjustifiable special position and thus special financing of an exclusive energy sector — namely nuclear energy. A detailed description of the many problems associated with the EURATOM Treaty in terms of climate justice and climate protection can be found briefly and concisely in the “EURATOM analysis” of the plage. You are here: https://www.plage.at/aktuelle-meldungen/neue-euratom-analyse-review-hans-josef-fell
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