Nuclear energy seen from China and Austria

To deal with global warming, many states are making an energy transition, towards less carbon-intensive production. A major choice then arises: whether or not to develop nuclear energy.

While China is resolutely turning towards the atom with the objective of reaching a capacity of 400 megawatts in 2060 against 53 megawatts in 2021, according to the latest figures available with around twenty reactors under construction after having already multiplied its production by 10 in the space of 20 years, Austria is an irreducible figure in this area. The transalpine country raised the prohibition of the exploitation of nuclear energy to the rank of constitutional principle in 1999, preferring to emphasize renewable energies.

It is now strongly opposed to the position of France and other European states which demanded equal treatment between renewable hydrogen and “low-carbon” hydrogen, i.e. produced with electricity. of nuclear origin.