
Listen: Will Germany come back to nuclear energy?
Germany shut down its last nuclear power plants in 2023 but as the pro-atom far-right Alternative for Germany gains broader support, the country might change course.

Germany shut down its last nuclear power plants in 2023 but as the pro-atom far-right Alternative for Germany gains broader support, the country might change course.

The 40th anniversary of a major nuclear accident is a good opportunity to reflect on whether something similar can happen again today.

One nuclear expert told me he didn’t want to write an op-ed on the possible dangers of a meltdown of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine. He then added he’d stocked up on iodine tablets.

France’s plans for a €70bn expansion of its nuclear energy production come after EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said that abandoning nuclear had been a “strategic mistake”.