Atomkraft wurde einst bei den Klimaverhandlungen gemieden. Jetzt ist es ein aufgehender Stern.

At last year’s climate conference in the United Arab Emirates, 22 countries pledged, for the first time, to triple the world’s use of nuclear power by midcentury to help curb global warming. At this year’s summit in Azerbaijan, [six more countries signed the pledge](https://world-nuclear.org/news-and-media/press-statements/six-more-countries-endorse-the-declaration-to-triple-nuclear-energy-by-2050-at-cop29).

“It’s a whole different dynamic today,” said Dr. Bilbao y Leon, who now leads the World Nuclear Association, an industry trade group. “A lot more people are open to talking about nuclear power as a solution.”

The list of countries pledging to build new nuclear reactors, which can generate electricity without emitting any planet-warming greenhouse gases, includes longtime users of the technology like Canada, France, South Korea and the United States. But it also includes countries that don’t currently have any nuclear capacity, like Kenya, Mongolia and Nigeria.

The Biden administration has been particularly active in promoting nuclear power at the talks. On Tuesday, the White House [put out a detailed road map](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/US-Nuclear-Energy-Deployment-Framework.pdf) for how the country could triple its nuclear capacity by 2050.

Later in the week, the administration signed a letter of intent to provide [a loan of roughly $979 million](https://www.nucnet.org/news/us-development-finance-corporation-signs-letter-of-intent-for-usd979-million-nuclear-loan-11-3-2024) to a project in Poland that would build three large new nuclear reactors designed by Westinghouse, an American company.

nuclear energy programs have a thing for skyrocketing costs in building and deconstruction.

Whenever people argue for nuclear ,they conveniently leave out that fact.

interesting, isnt it ?

its the perfect cashcow.

They were alway 99 percent save .. even better.. but we have around 400 operating reactors.

Yes, now that the world has finally seen through the terror-russian anti-nuclear power information campaign that took out the entire nuclear fleet of Germany to replace it with natural gas.

Nuclear power is the only way to sate the base power production needed for the future. We can build a million windmills and cover entire deserts with solar panels, but what happens at night, or when winds are calm? Where do we plan to get enough copper for the transmission lines or lithium for the batteries? The magnitude of metals required for solar and wind is unfeasible.

SMR’s are the way forward. Remember to bring enough rebar and concrete, because even they must be built to withstand that goddamn airliner collision at full speed… sigh.

Too late. takes forever to build, costs too much. Solar can do the job at 1/10 of the cost.

The founder of Greenpeace became a nuclear supporter and they ran him out of the organization. But, it’s true.