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I understand the "Realpolitik" here, but ... > "This government chooses safe, affordable, and sustainable energy. With less dependence on fossil imports and mo

I understand the "Realpolitik" here, but ... > "This government chooses safe, affordable, and sustainable energy. With less dependence on fossil imports and more control over our own supply," he wrote on X. Really? So nuclear power plants are suddenly the new "clean" hype? Because if Belgium is stating "more control over our own supply", can we mention a little something THAT BELGIUM HAS TO IMPORT URANIUM? So the "own supply" here is ... what exactly? Besides, I question the "nuclear is now clean" campaign that Leyen is doing. She is the ultimate lobbyist. It is also strange how the EU says "russian energy is bad", but then is silent when uranium is imported into the EU from Russia. We are here being lied to by these lobbyists/politicians. And a few make a lot of money, at the expense of the great majority. Why were renewables barely strategically expanded? China did so. Why are democracies so incompetent nowadays?

pmontra 5mo ago
I found this source about Belgium imports of uranium [1]. The partner "World" is about 50% of the total. These data are from 2023. Maybe something changed in 2024 because [2] "Belgian nuclear plants no longer run on uranium from Russia". It ends with "Engie does not disclose how many different contracts were concluded and with which suppliers, but does say it obtained a sufficient geographical spread of its supply, Belga News Agency reports." So who knows. [1] https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/BEL/year/2023/tradeflow/Imports/partner/ALL/product/284420 https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/BEL/yea... [2] https://www.brusselstimes.com/1080337/belgian-nuclear-plants-no-longer-run-on-uranium-from-russia https://www.brusselstimes.com/1080337/belgian-nuclear-plants...
Moldoteck 5mo ago
Nuclear needs least amount of materials/imports per kwh https://ourworldindata.org/low-carbon-technologies-need-far-less-mining-fossil-fuels https://ourworldindata.org/low-carbon-technologies-need-far-... It's not a campaign to say nuclear is clean, it's a reality https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/LCA_3_FINAL%20March%202022.pdf https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/LCA_3_FINAL%20... If you dont agree to it it's your problem "uranium is imported into the EU from Russia" - here you prove again you have zero idea about the topic. Russia is ore importer itself. It exports enriched fuel (which can and IS easily done in EU too, by Orano and Urenco, even in Germany). Out of 22bn energy imports from RU last year, only 0.8bn were nuclear related, most of them spent by countries still running VVER units like Hungary because of their specific fuel elements but that will gradually be gone too with Westinghouse/Framatome help

pmontra 5mo ago

I found this source about Belgium imports of uranium [1]. The partner "World" is about 50% of the total. These data are from 2023. Maybe something changed in 2024 because [2] "Belgian nuclear plants no longer run on uranium from Russia". It ends with "Engie does not disclose how many different contracts were concluded and with which suppliers, but does say it obtained a sufficient geographical spread of its supply, Belga News Agency reports." So who knows. [1] https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/BEL/year/2023/tradeflow/Imports/partner/ALL/product/284420 https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/BEL/yea... [2] https://www.brusselstimes.com/1080337/belgian-nuclear-plants-no-longer-run-on-uranium-from-russia https://www.brusselstimes.com/1080337/belgian-nuclear-plants...

Moldoteck 5mo ago

Nuclear needs least amount of materials/imports per kwh https://ourworldindata.org/low-carbon-technologies-need-far-less-mining-fossil-fuels https://ourworldindata.org/low-carbon-technologies-need-far-... It's not a campaign to say nuclear is clean, it's a reality https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/LCA_3_FINAL%20March%202022.pdf https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/LCA_3_FINAL%20... If you dont agree to it it's your problem "uranium is imported into the EU from Russia" - here you prove again you have zero idea about the topic. Russia is ore importer itself. It exports enriched fuel (which can and IS easily done in EU too, by Orano and Urenco, even in Germany). Out of 22bn energy imports from RU last year, only 0.8bn were nuclear related, most of them spent by countries still running VVER units like Hungary because of their specific fuel elements but that will gradually be gone too with Westinghouse/Framatome help