Recently Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in St. Petersburg that the work on the first line of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline across the Baltic Sea had been completed, as he pointed out that “today … the pipe-laying work of the first Nord Stream 2 (NS2) line was successfully finished. Work on the second line is ongoing” (DW, 2021). …

As renewable energy sources tend to regularly dominate the headlines in Western mainstream media, nuclear power remains all too often neglected in international relations. Especially since lobbyists and policymakers seems obsessed with the idea to replace all traditional sources of energy with renewables, in other parts of the world nuclear energy is actively encouraged to take over the gap left …