Advocates hailed nuclear power as an enabler of energy security and sovereignty and a reliable option to mitigate climate change.
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00:00 Over 30 leaders and delegations from around the world gathered at a nuclear summit in
00:06 Brussels. They are thought to be backing the use of nuclear energy to help achieve the
00:10 goal of a climate neutral globe while giving more countries an added sense of economic
00:15 and security independence as the war in Ukraine lays bare a dependence on Russian energy over
00:22 the past decade.
00:25 The next steps are already taking place in fact and these are the many many projects
00:30 that are being developed in many countries in Europe but also in the global south, in
00:36 China, even in Russia, in the United States, in Canada, in Korea, in Japan where we see
00:43 that nuclear is returning and in a I would say in a very important way, in a very dynamic
00:48 way.
00:49 Germany is not attending the meeting as it switched off its last three nuclear reactors
00:54 almost a year ago, completing a process that received wide political support after Japan's
00:59 Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in 2011. But some argue for a rethink after energy
01:05 prices spiked because of the war in Ukraine.
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