{"id":161568,"date":"2023-04-05T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/study-explores-the-extent-of-western-dependency-on-russian-nuclear-energy"},"modified":"2023-04-05T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:23:24","slug":"study-explores-the-extent-of-western-dependency-on-russian-nuclear-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/study-explores-the-extent-of-western-dependency-on-russian-nuclear-energy","title":{"rendered":"Study explores the extent of Western dependency on Russian nuclear energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-explores-the-extent-of-western-dependency-on-russian-nuclear-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 had a profound deep impact on the economy, inflating the prices of energy and food, with detrimental consequences for both individuals and companies worldwide. As a result, many governments, particularly in Europe, have been discussing the possibility of reducing their dependence on Russian energy.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these ongoing discussions specifically focus on fossil fuel energy, leading to the gradual introduction of sanctions for purchasing Russian coal, oil, and gas. However, Russia is also a key global provider of nuclear power, particularly via a state-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/nuclear+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nuclear energy<\/a> corporation called Rosatom.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) have recently carried out a study investigating the activity and global portfolio of Rosatom and its subsidiaries. Their findings, published in <i>Nature Energy<\/i>, highlight the high degree of European dependency on nuclear energy produced by this company, raising important questions about the need to find alternative energy suppliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 had a profound deep impact on the economy, inflating the prices of energy and food, with detrimental consequences for both individuals and companies worldwide. As a result, many governments, particularly in Europe, have been discussing the possibility of reducing their dependence on Russian energy. Most of these ongoing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}