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In six years, the proportion of those supporting and opposing nuclear energy have reversed. In 2016, 41% rejected the technology and 15% supported it. The proportion of those in favour of nuclear power has now increased to 40% and that of those against nuclear power has decreased to 15%.
The company said the difference between the results of a European Social Survey poll in 2016 and its own 2021 research, which preceded the energy crisis, already suggested that public support for anti-nuclear policy was steadily declining.
“Based on the results of the 2022 autumn survey of Századvég, it can be stated that the energy crisis has accelerated the trend: in a single year, the rejection of nuclear energy among European citizens decreased by as much as in the previous five years,” Századvég said.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 17 January 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/energy-crisis-sees-major-shift-in-support-for-nuclear-research-suggests-1-1-2023
European industry body Foratom is hopeful that a new conversation around nuclear energy in light of the continent's gas crisis will bring the policy framework needed for it to make a major contribution to 2030 energy targets, a Moody's webinar heard.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 04 November 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Evolution-in-EU-nuclear-debate
Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told the US-sponsored Partnership for Transatlantic Energy and Climate Cooperation’s (P-TECC’s) third ministerial conference in Warsaw, that nuclear power is important to support an emerging new global clean energy economy. However, global reactor capacity would need to increase threefold by 2050 to meet global net-zero emission targets.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiea-head-tells-us-sponsored-conference-that-nuclear-is-important-for-climate-mitigation-9128635
Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, today reiterated that all clean technologies, including nuclear, will be needed for a low-carbon economic recovery, while Frans Timmermans, executive vice-president of the European Commission, stressed that the Commission “would not stand in the way” of EU Member States that support nuclear power. Timmermans was speaking as Birol's guest in the latest edition of the IEA's Big Ideas speaker series
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 27 October 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EU-Commission-will-not-hinder-pro-nuclear-countrie
Jadrová a vyradovacia spolocnost a.s. (JAVYS), has received a grant from The Bohunice International Decommissioning Support Fund (BIDSF), administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank) towards the cost of the project A3-A “Reconstruction of Area Protection System AKOBOJE”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 23 August 2010
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsreconstruction-of-area-protection-system-slovak-republic-deadline-11-january-2011