South Korea Changes Course and Will Focus on Using Nuclear Energy to Meet Carbon Neutrality Goals
I just don’t see how any country with a modern economy like South Korea can achieve carbon neutrality without using nuclear power. It is good to see that the new Korean government has come around to this reality:
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has said South Korea will actively use nuclear energy to meet its target of carbon neutrality and as a tool for the nation’s energy security.
Han made the remarks in a video address to a global climate meeting hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday.
South Korea “will actively utilize nuclear power plants as a means of energy security and carbon neutrality,” Han told the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, according to a statement provided by Han’s office.
South Korea has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from the 2018 levels by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Yonhap
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South Korea is showing wisdom. Now, if the USA and Western Europe would just do the same!
There is no wisdom in “carbon neutrality goals”.
There is wisdom in energy independence, local pollution reduction, long-term cost considerations, etc.
Saying you are going to go nuclear to meet “carbon neutrality goals” is like saying you are going to get laid tonight…
…by passing out naked in the gay bar bathroom.
Hopefully, Korea doesn’t believe this carbon crap, as China and India beat them economically by powering their countries on cow farts and burning tires. Hopefully, Korea is chasing nuclear for all the right reasons and practicing all the right precautions. Hopefully the talk of carbon is just to satisfy the globalists who used the last anti-Korean puppet regime to make Korea energy dependent and damage the reactor export industry.
But good on Korea for taking their sovereignty and energy sovereignty back.