Twenty nuclear reactors being installed or planned in India, 222 under construction, planned or under study in China… On the planet, 60 reactors are under construction, 110 in project and more than 300 under study, lists the World Nuclear Association.
This is more, in total, than the approximately 436 active reactors, which generated 10% of the world's electricity in 2022.
Around forty countries are investing in atomic energy today.
The United States, the United Kingdom, France and 18 other states announced in December that they would triple their nuclear power by 2050. Countries like Sweden and Japan, for a time resistant to this non-renewable energy but much less polluting than electricity from coal, oil or gas, have chosen to return to it or to come there.
Despite opposition from Germany and Austria, the EU has finally included nuclear power in green technologies, a position validated Tuesday by…
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