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New reactors for a “radiant” future?

Nuclear reactors - are they really an AQC or rather a ticking time bomb?

(Bild: www.viennareport.at)

Nuclear energy is currently "in". Especially in China. Reactors are set to spring up like mushrooms there over the next few years. Among other things, to achieve the climate targets, as they say. "Krone" science expert Christian Mähr on the new generation of reactors.

According to many sources, nuclear energy is totally uneconomical compared to alternative energy generation methods, i.e. wind, sun, waves and so on. If that's not enough, a few place names come to mind: Tree Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima. This should actually be the end of the matter - since even the physicist Angela Merkel came to the conclusion: "We don't want this!" - and thus initiated Germany's nuclear phase-out. This makes the nuclear industry's insistence on launching a Generation IV reactor after Generations I, II and III all the more astonishing. An association of more than a dozen countries has been pursuing the goal of developing new, improved nuclear reactors for a quarter of a century.