Vucic: Moratorium on nuclear power plants was a terrible mistake
France lives today thanks to nuclear power plants, everyone around us lives thanks to nuclear power plants, they have enough electricity. It's just that they convinced us to be the dumbest in Europe and sign a moratorium on nuclear power plants. We'll see what happens in the future. That is the purest energy - Vucic explained while appearing on Ami G Show
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said last night that a terrible mistake was made when Serbia signed a moratorium on nuclear power plants, and added that the problem today is that we do not have experts to manage them, as well as the fact that their construction is expensive.
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"France lives today thanks to nuclear power plants, everyone around us lives thanks to nuclear power plants, they have enough electricity. It's just that they convinced us to be the dumbest in Europe and sign a moratorium on nuclear power plants. We'll see what happens in the future. That is the purest energy," Vucic explained while appearing on Ami G Show.
He said that we cannot build nuclear power plants quickly, because the construction of a small nuclear power plant takes five to six years.
He recalled that he offered Hungarians and Bulgarians to give a share in their nuclear power plants, which, he said, would be the best solution, but no one will give that easily, because they earn a lot of money through electricity, especially now that electricity is expensive.
It is much harder with solar panels, he said, because there must be reversibility, since it is not always sunny when it is, it is necessary to have a place to store electricity. Vucic added that had we shut down coal mines, as they asked of us, we would not have electricity today.
Vucic said that the Germans are now returning to coal, Belgium is lifting the moratorium on nuclear power plants.
"We cancel the moratorium, but do we have people who could manage them? Plus they are expensive. There is a modular nuclear power plant that costs 2.5 billion euros, while if we do bigger ones, which the Russians know how to build, those cannot be built for under 12 billion euro," Vucic shared his concerns regarding the energy crisis with the audience.
When asked how he would behave if we had nuclear weapons, Vucic replied, "I would be in a bit better mood."
(Telegraf.rs)