Introduction Since the Industrial Revolution, the world has relied on fossil fuels to power increasing energy demands, but the climate crisis is forcing countries to reduce emissions. Nuclear energy might not be renewable energy, but it lasts for a long time and is clean for the environment, releasing very few greenhouse gases while still producing a significant amount of energy for our power grid. So why hasn’t this fuel replaced every other energy source? It’s because of a combination of economic issues that we are yet to fix as well as countries’ split opinions on it. The longer we use fossil fuels, the more harm we cause to the Earth, which means we need to find clean energy sources that can phase them out and nuclear energy could be one. While nuclear energy can’t be a viable energy source on its own, we should try to find out if it can accompany other energy sources to create a sustainable energy grid. The political duality of nuclear energy Despite European countries’ positive