The EU’s nuclear reckoning is finally here

The EU sacrificed reliable nuclear power to ideology, then discovered that ideology does not generate electricity For years, the EU’s political establishment treated nuclear energy as something between an embarrassment and a moral transgression. The consequences were predictable – and increasingly impossible to conceal.The green dogma has come dueGermany provides the clearest case study. In 2011, nuclear power supplied roughly a quarter of the country’s electricity. Twelve years later, Berlin shut down its final three reactors.This was not an unavoidable act of economic modernization. It was a political choice, heavily influenced by fashionable environmental dogma and woke ideologies that treated technological progress as morally suspect whenever it conflicted with an approved political narrative.Now the same establishment that demanded the shutdown is quietly admitting that it got the calculation wrong.German Energy Minister Katherina Reiche has called the nuclear phase-out a “huge mistake.” Chancellor Friedrich Merz has described it as a “serious strategic mistake.” International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol has agreed that Germany’s decision deserves to be reconsidered.Even B...