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It's a tragedy, and I can't help but wonder to whose benefit it is to forgo nuclear and burn natural gas instead.
by StavrosK 7y ago
It's a tragedy, and I can't help but wonder to whose benefit it is to forgo nuclear and burn natural gas instead.
- xmNAH 7y agoPipeline and GazProm Schroeder, close to Putin and former head of the SPD, the party that has been backstabbing their voters since Helmut Schmidt left. The CDU probably also has their fingers in the pie somewhere.
- glogla 7y agoRussia, mostly.
- Tade0 7y agoGermany has had a serious problem with waste storage and disposal. A while ago the government reached a deal with the utilities which put them of the hook for around ~€25bln: https://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2016/10/germany-approves-nuclear-waste-storage-deal-with-utilities.html https://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2016/10/germany... Some sources say that this won't cover even a quarter of the costs, because Germany does not have any permanent storage facility.
- Robotbeat 7y agoSounds like a solvable problem that some folks just insisted on not solving.