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Twenty countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit to triple their nuclear energy capacity by 2050 to reduce carbon emissions. How feasible is the target given the complexities and cost of building new nuclear plants?
Once one of the world's strongest economies, Germany is now expected to have the worst performing economy of any leading nation in the world.
Germany has remained the 'sick man of Europe' as its economy stagnated in the second quarter, new figures show, as the country battles an industrial slowdown and stubborn inflation.
The undecidedness about nuclear energy is in stark contrast to J. Robert Oppenheimer's Bhagavad Gita-inspired equanimity about his creation of the atom bomb. Even though he did show the Arjuna-like guilt after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying he had blood on his hands, he never regretted his act.
The head of Germany's energy firm RWE said he fears that Germany will face a shortage of electricity that will see prices in the already struggling country soar.