Twenty-two states pledge to triple nuclear power
Atomic energy returns to the climate agenda after forty years out of it.
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- ± 15 days
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- Contemporary, Holocene
The pledge to triple nuclear capacity by 2050, launched at COP28 and expanded through 2025, marked the reversal of a retreat that began at Three Mile Island and deepened after Fukushima. Japan restarted reactors, Sweden and the Netherlands reversed phase-outs, and the demand for uninterrupted power for data centres gave the argument a commercial driver it had lacked.