Forty years after the Danish parliament banned the constructing of nuclear energy crops, Denmark is once more.
Its power minister Lars Aagaard advised newspaper Politiken that the federal government would assess rising applied sciences and publish its conclusions subsequent yr.
He expressed specific curiosity in small modular reactors, that are anticipated to reach available on the market over the following 10 years.
“The federal government has determined to institute an inquiry of the potential of those applied sciences,” Aagaard stated.
“However simply having potential isn’t sufficient. We should additionally perceive what it means for Danish society if we’re to allow these applied sciences.”
Classes from Iberia
The nation is reconsidering after the latest black-out over the Iberian peninsula.
Round half of Denmark’s electrical energy comes from wind.
If it embraces nuclear, it could be part of Sweden, France, Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Belgium in shifting in that path.
Germany closed down its final reactor in 2023, however through the latest election marketing campaign the profitable CDU/CSU alliance stated it could rethink the coverage.
Aagaard stated that the transfer didn’t sign a break with the deal with renewable power, which he stated was nonetheless the “least expensive and quickest routes to the inexperienced transition”.
He additionally dominated out conventional nuclear energy crops.
He additionally criticised the correct wing in Denmark for “talking enthusiastically about nuclear energy as if it’s a plug-and-play resolution, with no tough decisions concerned”.
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