World leaders meet in Belgium to promote nuclear energy [Video]

• More than 30 global leaders met near the Atomium monument, endorsing nuclear energy for climate goals and national independence.
• Global trends such as the urgency to phase out fossil fuels and geopolitical tensions have shifted attitudes towards nuclear energy.
• Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, voiced the necessity of nuclear energy.

In the shadows of a massive monument glorifying nuclear energy, over 30 leaders and delegations from around the world backed the idea of using the controversial energy source to help achieve a climate-neutral globe while providing countries an added sense of economic and security independence.

Such a summit would have been unthinkable a dozen years ago after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but a warming planet creating a need to phase out fossil fuels and the war in Ukraine laying bare dependence on Russian energy have turned the tide in recent years.

“We have to do everything possible to facilitate the contribution of nuclear energy,” …