GREEN NUCLEAR POWER - A NEW SOLUTION TO OUR ENERGY AND CLIMATE PROBLEMS
SEPTEMBER 12:
A
modern society needs a lot of energy to function well. This is also the case in
Europe.
Below
you see a new overview made by EUROSTAT, EU’s Statistical Office in Luxembourg.
It shows which sources we get our energy supply from today.
As
you see we get more than 25 % from nuclear power plants. There are 109 nuclear
power stations in EU-27 ( in 15 member states ). It is in particular France,
which produces a large part of its energy from nuclear.
In the whole world there
are today 440 nuclear power stations – placed in 30 countries.
It is in my view evident
that nuclear energy is indispensable in our societies. And it is also a fact
that all the modern stations are run with huge safety rules.
In more and more countries
the interest for what is called GREEN NUCLEAR POWER is on the clear increase.
This is energy based on THORIUM, not on uranium. Just in India 62 power nuclear stations are
being built right now – most of them based on thorium. They will be operational from 2025. The Chinese are
also on the way.
I will tomorrow briefly describe
why thorium-based nuclear power stations are so special ( so safe, so
efficient, so useless to use for production of arms, and based on the raw
material thorium, which exist in huge quantities in many areas of the world ).
Green nuclear
power should fundamentally change our view on nuclear – as also explained
recently in an article in one of Germany’s biggest dailies, Die Welt.
See the overview from EUROSTAT of today’s situation
in EU-27 here:
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