A more independent Europe means homegrown, affordable, and reliable energy.
⚡ So far: renewables and nuclear energy already make up over 70% of our electricity generation.
🔋 Next: we are accelerating grid connections and storage so no clean power goes to waste.
🔌 The future: we are launching a new electrification strategy this summer to make Europe more independent.
We are moving away from expensive fossil fuels and toward a system that works for our people and the planet.
"Homegrown" nuclear energy?
»#Russia, through state-owned #Rosatom controls a large share of the global nuclear fuel supply chain. The scale of this dominance is striking: Russia commands approximately 46% of global uranium enrichment capacity, 20% of conversion services, and serves as the primary supplier for VVER reactor types across the world including Central and Eastern Europe.
For the European Union specifically, the dependency statistics are sobering. In 2023, EU utilities sourced 23% of their uranium from Russia directly, with an additional 21% coming from Kazakhstan, where Russian companies hold significant stakes through Uranium One company. Russian companies provided 22% of conversion services and a remarkable 38% of enrichment services to EU utilities in 2023.« (emphasis added)
Fortunately, at least Germany has consigned this technology to the dustbin of history – and sadly, it can't do so with nuclear waste.
Finland is the only country of the #EU that has a final disposal site. A single one.
Go to hell with your greenwashing of "nuclear energy".
https://hagueresearch.org/the-eu-is-dependent-on-russian-nuclear-fuel-but-not-for-long/
European Commission
katzenberger
Eugenio Parmon