Why Europe still needs Russia to keep the lights on

The EU wants to cut Moscow out of its nuclear sector, but its reactors remain tied to Russian fuel, technology, and capacity

Earlier this week, fuel loading began at the final unit of Slovakia’s Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant. This is the final step before the commercial launch later this summer. The project – construction for which was launched by the Soviet Union back in 1987, in a world long vanished – will propel Slovakia to the leadership position for nuclear power in the EU.

But the step, as positive as it may seem for Europe’s beleaguered energy sector, is not without an entirely predictable controversy. The nuclear fuel for the new…

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