mo4ch:>Energy watchdog warns aging nuclear power plants spell doom for green future | Mo4ch News

The International Energy Agency, which advises 30 nations on energy policy, has warned the world’s sustainability and climate goals could be unattainable unless countries shore up their declining nuclear power industries.With many of the world’s nuclear reactors aging out of their natural lifespan, and few coming online to replace them due to regulatory hurdles and cheap fossil fuels, humankind is looking at a clean energy crisis, according to the IEA. Ten percent of global electricity currently comes from nuclear power.“Without policy changes, advanced economies could lose 25 percent of their nuclear capacity by 2025 and as much as two-thirds of it by 2040,” the IEA wrote in a report – its first on the topic of nuclear energy in 20 years. With the average American and European reactor over 35 years old, many are expected to close within five years, and there’s nothing in the pipeline to replace the energy they generated, the agency warns.Also on rt.comThe US is losing the nuclear rac…