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This is completely wrong and it's exactly the other way around. Decarbonizing is about direct or indirect electrification of all of people's energy needs, thus, primary energy is the relevant number to look at.

There's nothing pro- or anti-nuclear in this argument, since primary energy consumption can be electrified with or without nuclear.



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