Stuttgart – Baden-Württemberg’s Environment Minister Thekla Walker has criticized the EU Commission’s initiative to classify nuclear energy as climate-friendly. “This is an absolutely wrong path – in terms of economic policy, energy policy and climate policy,” said the Green Minister on Sunday in Stuttgart.
Nuclear power is and will remain dangerous. In addition, it is the most expensive option of all and a decade-long undertaking, said Walker. All efforts and investments for the energy supply of the future would have to go into renewable energies instead.
While gas could still be regarded as a very short-term transition technology, the shining legacies of nuclear energy, which have been shining for millions of years, could never be considered sustainable, said the Green politician.
“It is unbelievable what the EU wants our descendants to do here: more and more nuclear waste, for whose safe disposal there is still no solution even after decades of searching.”
The EU Commission wants to classify investments in gas and nuclear power plants as climate-friendly under certain conditions. This emerges from the draft of a legal act by the Brussels authority, which became public on New Year’s Day.
Specifically, the proposal provides that investments planned in France in new batteries in particular can be classified as green if the systems meet the latest technical standards and a specific plan for a disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste is submitted by 2050 at the latest.
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