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Nuclear power in the taxonomy draft: a text with weaknesses

According to the Commission’s draft taxonomy bill, investments in nuclear power are to be classified as “sustainable.” But there are gaps in the Commission’s proposal. The Commission also sets standards for technologies that do not yet exist. This provides critics with a broad attack surface.
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Charlotte Wirth
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One person, in particular, will have been pleased with the draft taxonomy that the European Commission sent to member states shortly before midnight on December 31st: French EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton. “We need nuclear power to become climate neutral. Therefore, it was always clear that it must not be excluded from the taxonomy,” Breton recently told the “Journal du Dimanche“.

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