/ world today news/ It is predicted that by 2050, 17 percent of global electricity production will come from nuclear power plants.
This is what one of the leading energy experts Prof. Atanas Tasev said in the program “Green Alternatives” on Darik. Until then, the installed capacity should be equal to 930 megawatts (reactors with a capacity of 1000 megawatts such as those at the Kozloduy NPP”) at 396 megawatts at the moment. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, 75 reactors were under construction in the world last year. By 2050, there is a program that will reduce carbon dioxide emissions to zero, and thermal power plants have no chance, said Prof. Tasev. When asked who will replace them, the expert is adamant that in the basic energy sector it is the nuclear power plants.
Prof. Tasev pointed out that the leading factors in the decision to build a new nuclear power plant are three – geopolitical, political and economic. Relying on them, he explained why the project for the second nuclear power plant in our country is in the freezer, and the one for the seventh unit at the Kozloduy NPP – in question.
In terms of Green responses to nuclear power, he divided them into two. The first are those who have turned nuclear energy into their enemy in their platforms and are trying to stop its development. Prof. Tasev emphasized that an analogy can be made between the role of this type of greens and that of the opposition in democratic countries. Their sharp reaction to nuclear power becomes a factor stimulating the accelerated introduction of new technologies to increase the reliability of nuclear power plants, the specialist said.
The other green ones are those that have focused on the production of electricity from renewable sources, following the European directives to achieve an average 20 percent share of electricity from green plants in the total consumption in the European Union in 2020. The expert made the stipulation that the latter have not gone to war with nuclear energy, but are waiting for their exposure in the market to compete with other manufacturers. But in the sector of basic capacities without harmful emissions, nuclear energy has no competition, Prof. Tasev is categorical.
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