Denmark is reviewing its 40 -year -old ban on nuclear energy in a major political transformation of the heavy country in renewable energy sources.
The Minister of Energy said that the Danish government will analyze the potential benefits of a new generation of nuclear energy technologies after banning traditional nuclear reactors in 1985.
The Scandinavian country is one of the most renewable energy markets in Europe, and it is home to the largest marine wind company in the world. More than 80 % of electricity is created from renewable energy sources, including wind, biofuels and solar energy, according to the International Energy Agency.
But Denmark may start investing in normative nuclear reactors, as suggested by Aagaard, Minister of Energy and Climate.
“We can see that there is a development under development with new nuclear energy technologies – small and irritated reactors. But it is not enough to have potential. We also need to know the meaning of the Danish society if we want to enable these technologies,” Agard told the Danish Politkin newspaper.
The country’s decision to reconsider nuclear energy has emerged as interest in new nuclear reactors designs have been taken throughout Europe, as well as plans to extend the life of the current reactors on the continent.
Former Prime Minister of Denmark Anders Voger Rasmussen told the Financial Times on Wednesday that he had supported the “funny” ban on nuclear energy.
“Wind and solar energy are good as long as you have wind and sunlight. But you must have a loading uniformity base and absurdity excluding nuclear energy in advance. I think this is a process [from the government] Towards the ban. “
European renewable interest in nuclear energy is partially renewed due to an expected increase in the demand for low -carbon electricity to transport, industry and home heating in the coming decades.
The developers of small standard reactors designs, which can be built in factories and assembled on the site, have promised lower costs and short construction times than widely traditional reactors.
Nuclear energy has also won the support of technology companies, including Google, which is interested in using it Small numerical nuclear reactors To supply the powerful data centers with electricity that is 24 hours a day.
It is understood that Spain, which is widely anti -nuclear weapons, is reviewing plans to close its seven nuclear reactors in the next decade after a. A huge interruption in power via the Iberian Peninsula last month.
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in GermanyThe nuclear energy was banned in 2022, the debate was reshaped about whether its reactors will be restarted after the stoppage of Russian gas imports this year its strong dependence on invasive power plants.
At the same time, the United Kingdom, France Belgium has agreed to prolong the life of the current nuclear reactors to help meet the increasing demand for low carbon electricity to remove carbon economies.
France hopes to build six other reactors to renew the youth of its advanced fleet, and in the end of last year the Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor in its network, which is the first in addition to the nuclear power network in 25 years.
The UK builds a Hinkley Point C in Somersrest, England, and expects to develop plans to develop small standard reactors in the coming months, as well as determining whether you are investing in the besieged Sizewell C project.
In Denmark, his It is struggled in the face of high inflation, supply chain disorder and high interest ratesForced them to reduce jobs and delay or cancel projects. Last week, that One of the largest marine wind defenders in the UK, Hornsea 4, off the coast of YorkshireSaying the costs of height means that it is no longer an economic logical.
