Families and businesses throughout Europe are seeing gas prices and the expense of filling cars with petrol spiral out of control. The European Commission, the executive branch of the EU, has urged people to work more from home and travel far less, while the UK government has essentially instructed voters to remain calm and carry on.
Depending on what transpires in the Middle East, policymakers caution that things could get far worse. However, with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Europeans experienced a cost-of-living crisis due to rising oil prices and inflation, which seems like it was only yesterday.
This indicates that the topic of energy independence is coming up (again) in European discussions. Additionally, nuclear energy appears to be making a comeback as a domestic component of the European energy mix, both in the UK and the EU. However, how safe and dependable is nuclear truly, and how quickly can it be fixed?
Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, who may have forgotten that she was a minister in the German government when it decided to phase out nuclear power plants in 2011, called Europe’s general retreat from nuclear a “strategic mistake” at the recent European Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris.
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