EU Clean Energy Transition Plan Encounters Resistance from Atomic Energy Advocates
The European Union has encountered a new challenge in its quest to replace fossil fuels with various renewable alternatives; resistance from pro-nuclear energy governments. With solar and wind acting as the main alternatives and the driving force in the EU’s green energy drive, pro-nuclear regimes in the regional bloc say they will not support a green energy goal that doesn't include atomic energy. The 27 states that make up the European Union have different views on nuclear energy, a controversial type of energy that generates no greenhouse gas emissions but is widely avoided due to the toxic waste it produces…