> don't build reactors in areas threatened by tsunamis and earthquakes. Germany is safe from both, so using Chernobyl and Fukushima to justify shutting down rea

> don't build reactors in areas threatened by tsunamis and earthquakes. Germany is safe from both, so using Chernobyl and Fukushima to justify shutting down reactors in Germany, or even worse, stop construction of new ones, is borderline insane. The real issue with fukushima was simple — in case of a tsunami, the emergency generators would be flooded and fail, and the connection to the grid might fail. Pretty much all German reactors are in the flood plains of major rivers, and many of them had issues with the emergency generators being damaged by floods already. Or had issues with the grid connection failing. Luckily not both at once. Considering these are all ancient reactors from the 60s and 70s — not even two-circuit pressurized water reactors, but single-circuit boiling water reactors — this is actually quite risky. Add the multiple-billion-euro effort to build a storage solution, which has so far failed, and led to nuclear waste in a salt mine leaking into the ground water and causing issues, and you can start to understand why nuclear in Germany might be problematic.