Germany ends an era as the last three nuclear power plants in the country they close this Saturday. The blackout, which occurs in full energy crisis, it raises uncertainty despite the fact that the government claims to have guaranteed supply.

Alfredo García, operator and disseminator on nuclear energy, explains to laSexta that they have made the substitution for natural gas, but “since they haven’t had enough for the last few months due to the ukrainian war, they are increasing the consumption of coal.” Last year nuclear power supplied only 6% of the energy produced in Germany.

Spain also has a closing calendar for its seven nuclear reactors: the last one will do so in 2035. “The abandonment of nuclear energy is inevitable not only in Germany, but throughout the world, due to the decrease in available uranium,” Antonio Turiel, a research scientist at the CSIC.

France, on the other hand, leads a group of twelve European Union countries who continue betting on nuclear energy. It has 58 reactors that generate close to 70% of its energy production and intends to build six new reactors with the hope, perhaps, that the path will be opened for the uranium mining in other areas. In this sense, García warns that the ocean “is naturally full of uranium.” But at the same time, he recalls, there is another material, thorium, “an atom that can be turned into uranium.”

In the neighboring country, its president, Emmanuel Macron, has launched a drastic plan to energy saving. “He says that he is going to reduce his energy consumption by 10% until 2025 and 40% between now and 2050,” says García. Finland, Another of the countries that bets on nuclear energy, builds a gigantic cemetery of radioactive waste. Its management is another of the conflicts caused by atomic energy, as can be seen in the video above.