27% of Irish want nuclear energy to fight climate crisis

MORE than a quarter of Irish citizens believe the way out of the energy and climate change crisis is to increase the amount of nuclear energy in Europe, according to the latest EU-wide survey.

The Government has said it will not consider generating electricity from nuclear energy and the ESB is banned from doing so.

Twenty-seven percent of people said they believed it was the answer to greenhouse gases. This is close to the EU average of 30%.