Europe’s first new plant in 16 years comes on stream in Finland day after Germany pulls plug on last reactors
, it was hailed by its operator as a “significant addition to clean domestic production” that would “play an important role in the green transition”.
The environmental group Greenpeace, at the heart of Germany’s long-lived and powerful anti-nuclear movement, organised a party at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. “Finally, nuclear energy belongs to history,” it proclaimed. The energy shock that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, which brought an end to cheap gas imports and led Germany to briefly delay closing its last nuclear plants, has only entrenched the divisions.
Environmental activists protesting against what they describe as the EU’s greenwashing of nuclear energy, in Frankfurt, Germany, in January 2022., 25.4% of the EU’s electricity was nuclear generated in 2021, with 100-odd reactors in 13 member states. France, which has 56 operable nuclear reactors, accounting for just over half of that total.
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