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Wind for nordics is great because it helps reducing water use and avoid drought problems for hydro

Nuclear is still needed since expanding hydro isn't an option. And it's great for district heating in the north

You are right about regulations but even if you fix em now, framatome and whouse are just some shadows of what they've been in the past compared to current rosatom/chinese nuclear. Ramping up to the past lvl will be hard.

Fyi, I'm not sure but I think the statement about funding Ukraine is a bit misleading because EU as a whole and each EU country have different funding and budget mechanisms. Maybe I'm wrong but I remember I've read something about this in the past



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more...

> Europe estimated to have bought €22bn of fossil fuels from Russia in 2024 but gave €19bn to support Kyiv

Norway was never anywhere near having drought problems and what the Labour Party did has not reduced water usage by Hydro at all, they made it worse.


Yeah, your link is straightforward - It takes all fossils imports from Russia but for Ukraine help it takes only EU fund value, ignoring additional individual state contributions. If you add those I think the sum is larger. Not justifying gas imports in any way, just observing

Norway does definitely have problems to takle

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/08/20/n... https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/southern-norway-...




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