You may have already heard about nuclear power plants recommissioning and overall renaissance of nuclear energetics as the means of standing with Ukraine and defeating Mad Atomic Vlad.
Alas, the problem with nuclear energetics in the EU is multifaceted. Suffice to say that the biggest proven Eurasian reserves of uranium and thorium ores lay in (surprise!) Russia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, and India.
Adding insult to injury, the most competent designer of modern nuclear reactors is Rosatom.
You are free to imagine their sincere desire of helping European customers in times of the modern equivalent of European Bronze Age collapse.
Sure, alternative suppliers, designers and builders exist, but their services are often of inferior quality, that’s why, for example, the chronically postponed Olkiluoto-3 in Finland cost bigger than LHC (11 billion euros). Not incidentally Toshiba had found themselves in a risk of delisting from Tosho after buying Westinghouse.
That’s why, folks, ye shall never make a continent-spanning empire in likeness of the European Union or Rzeczpospolita. Its government will highly likely consist of lazy, self-obsessed, nationalism- and greed-driven suits who never had any itch to play Sid Meier’s Civilization or Dune. They only play veto.
