Abstract
To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to below 1.5°C, cost-effective measures for accelerated transitions toward greenhouse gas (GHG) neutral energy systems are required. In all plausible scenarios, achieving climate neutrality in the second half of this century while ensuring energy security is a major challenge that cannot be addressed by excluding any technology, as this would restrict flexibility and increase transition costs. Nuclear energy is a proven, mature, and essentially zero GHG-emitting technology that can provide the base-load electricity needed to ensure 24-hour stability in electric grids with an increasingly renewable supply.
