Ten years ago, coinciding with the explosion in Fukushima, the debate on energy sources intensified in almost everyone, but above all in Europe. Germany took the lead in replacing nuclear weapons in the medium term; Spain and France, at least with their small mouths, expressed their intention to follow the same path. But then there was the debate about what had to be done with nuclear waste, and the knot on this issue gradually blurred the nuclear debate and finally made it disappear.
At the time of the pandemic, it has hardly been discussed because society has been asleep and the energy needs have been lower than in previous years, but at this time that seems to be the end of the pandemic there has been a strong debate, since when leaving home the energy needs are growing exponentially.
"The path of the small nuclear plants that Macron sells to us can follow and in the coming decades we can find France, Europe and the world with nuclear power plants"
Recently, the French President announced aid worth EUR 30 billion to support French industry. Part of this amount will be used for the creation of small nuclear industries. As the years of energy transition are going to be necessary, Macron said they can be a perfect tool to help that transition that will last decades. The proponents of this technology have ensured that the plants that would make up a quarter of the power of the conventional nuclear power plants will be built safely, in a short time, as if they were mushrooms. China and EE.UU have embarked on this path and in Europe there are opposing views: France and the Netherlands, for example, are in favour of this and Germany continues to refuse.
Although the deployment of renewable energy has almost doubled in the last ten years, its weight remains very low, below 10% of current energy consumption. The global consensus on the need to combat the greenhouse effect, the reduction of emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, is increasing, but considering that the energy needs of society are increasing every year and that the deployment of renewable energies has high ups and downs, the path of the small nuclear plants that Macron sells to us can move forward and in the coming decades we can find France, Europe and the world plagued by nuclear power plants.
Europe has just accepted that nuclear weapons should be called ‘green’, and the same is true of the gas that Germany defends. This type of energy will be ignited by a green light throughout Europe and also in the Basque Country. “Nuclear”, powered in the 1970s around the Lemoiz power plant. No, thank you,” will you have continuity?