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01 February 2021
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The Republic of Ireland has a legislative ban on nuclear power, but the climate emergency is an opportunity to look with fresh eyes at this untapped potential. 18for0 estimates that introducing 18% nuclear energy to the country s electricity mix could eliminate fossil fuels from the power sector and achieve decarbonisation by 2037. 18for0 is a group of professionals, all volunteers, concerned about the credibility of Ireland s current proposals to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Jerry Waugh, one of its members, describes the group s preliminary study on how this could be achieved.
Jerry Waugh of 18for0 Ireland’s commitments to meet ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets have been missed by a large margin - in 2018, for example, they were higher than in 2013, the start of the accounting period for its current EU binding commitment - and the national strategy for power generation in the government’s
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