Chairperson and founder of Nuclear Power Yes Please in Denmark: @atomkraft_jatak | Working at Kärnfull Energi DK | Writing about energy and climate ⚛️
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Earlier this week member of Danish parliament @SteffenFrolund disclosed that the upcoming hearing about nuclear power in Denmark has been infiltrated by an anti-nuclear activist disguised as an expert on nuclear waste suggested by the Social Democrats
The study has been released in the peer reviewed journal @IOPenvironment
In a recent article by @FT a picture of a divided Europe is being painted. On one side we have Germany refusing to accept their bad judgement on nuclear. On the other we have France just trying to build out nuclear energy on same terms as renewables.
The last couple of years danish politicians and the wind industry have bragged about how wind turbines are now practically free and no state subsidies are needed anymore.
Troels is very clear, when he talks about nuclear power in Denmark.
Burning biomass emits large amounts of CO2 and toxic particles, just like coal. It is documented by more than 800 researchers, including a wide range of the world's foremost climate scientists and EASAC, the Pan-European Science Council.
Yesterday two big news stories about Vattenfall and Ørsted came to light after both companies abandoned offshore wind projects in the US and UK.
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Latest opinion polls by Megafon A/S Consulting and Research show that 49% of the danish population would vote yes to nuclear power in Denmark! Only 32% would vote no, and the last 19% don’t know.
Germany has since 2011 accelerated the closure of its nuclear power plants as a response to the Fukushima accident in 2011.
As a Dane, I find this very refreshing, as our government and especially minister of energy and climate @L_Aagaard openly tries to exclude nuclear-made hydrogen from being labeled as green.
Last week, chairman of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Lars Rebien Sørensen, made it clear that we should reconsider our ”Nuclear Power No Thanks” in Denmark.
Ever since the newly elected Swedish government came to power, Swedish energy policy has experienced a rebirth. 
Denmark gets 90% of its Total Energy Supply (TES) from something that burns i.e. emits green house gasses (biomass, coal, oil and gas). 
It's an understandable fear since for almost four decades we've been indoctrinated with images of children being born without arms and legs or with some sort of cognitive impairment as a result of the Chernobyl accident or the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2/18 In the past few weeks, the attention of the media has been directed towards the deeply controversial World Cup in Qatar. Simultaneously, the Danish national football team has received criticism after refusing to wear the One Love armband in fear of receiving a yellow card. 