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Microsoft restarted the three miles island reactor. Energy heavy A.I. data centers will probably make use of nuclear energy to an extend.
The scaremongering is one thing, but practically cost is the bigger issue which might be related with scaremongering and erossion of skills.
The big bet is if costs can come down and if the emerging trend of smaller reactors proves economical enough. Its current biggest competition that is beating it is natural gas. Since nuclear energy lacks the negatives of solar/wind which require other energy sources to be used when they are down, it makes sense to invest in improving its effectiveness in terms of bringing down the costs. Current nuclear reactors are safe so that issue is handled.
The zero carbon agenda is the road to national self destruction. Deindustrialization and shutting down energy sources are a terrible idea. Green parties that have such an agenda must be investigated to see if they are funded by foreign powers which includes things like oikophobic ideology which is also disloyalty to your people's future well being. European countries should not agree that they should subsidize the developing world's adjustment, or that Europe should sacrifice its own energy needs for the sake of climate change goals.
Yeah Europe is really shooting itself in the foot, when it's already stumbling economically. I really do worry for the future of the EU.
I think another reason you don't mention that makes a lot of sense is the time to build, and the political polarization. If another party can get elected and just shut the whole thing down it makes it highly unfeasible.
Well, they have American Fifth Columnists in their country without the cultural antibodies against American Fifth Columnists. Not that the Americans themselves are doing any better resisting them, but at least they're not stupid enough to listen to the watermelon environmentalists in military matters.
The only non-Combloc European country with a major nuclear buildout is the one that had the most cultural antibodies against the US, and remember that they started it under a military dictatorship (though the fact they followed through with it is significant as well).
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