Europe’s energy crisis hits science

Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by rowanajmarshall on Thursday September 08, 2022 @01:33PM (#32768836)

For France (and I imagine it's similar for other countries), EU contributions are a smidgen under 1% of GDP. I can't imagine that makes the decisive difference here. And in any case, since the EU still gets more of its energy from nuclear than the US does they'd be doing a piss-poor job of it.

In fact, looking at the figures, the only countries worldwide that get more energy from nuclear than the EU _and_ aren't part of the EU are Ukraine (55%), South Korea (28%), Switzerland (29%), and Armenia (25%). And both Switzerland and Ukraine are synchronised with the greater European grid!

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by YesWeWill on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:31PM (#32770829)

Ukraine has been synchronized only very recently and it's much more like an emergency interconnect. Zaporozhi Power Plant is under attack.

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science by rowanajmarshall on Thursday September 08, 2022 @04:32PM (#32771695)

But it still shows there's more nuclear energy floating around the EU and it's neighbours than any other region of the world.

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