EU MULLS MEDIUM-TERM SPENDING OF BILLIONS OF EUROS ON NUCLEAR POWER
March 1st, 2019
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) maybe tangling with the potential impact of Brexit, but it is doing so while it agrees its next medium-term budget for 2021-2027 – and this includes earmarking billions of Euros for the nuclear industry.
Combining research spending under the Euratom portion of the Horizon Europe research and development programme, with increased expenditure on fusion reactor ITER, as well as decommissioning funds, the EU will continue to be a major financial supporter of Europe’s nuclear sector, even assuming Britain’s probably postponed ...
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