Covid-19, Climate Change and the Role of Nuclear Power in the Transition to Renewable Energy Sources to Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2050
Article from: OGEL 5 (2021), in Energy Transition
Abstract
Two significant phenomena have arguably combined to herald a potentially opportune moment for the nuclear industry. These phenomena are first, the global, Covid-19 pandemic that may have at least in part been due to the second phenomenon, namely, the ongoing climate change crisis. While pre-dating the advent of the pandemic, the climate change crisis (or emergency) is increasingly seen as inextricably linked to the pandemic's arrival, both as a partial environmental cause for this species-jumping disease, as well as presenting an opportunity to re-set the global energy source ...