Thank you for pointing this out, as a German it's kinda grating to keep on reading this kind of stuff, which also regularly frames the German nuclear exit as so

Thank you for pointing this out, as a German it's kinda grating to keep on reading this kind of stuff, which also regularly frames the German nuclear exit as some kind of knee-jerk reaction to Fukushima. When in reality the exit was already decided as far back as 2000, with the Bundestag ratifying it in 2002 [0]. A decision which was backed up by the EGG [1], a regulatory framework to facilitate and subsidize the large scale expansion of renewable energy sources that has been happening in Germany for over a decade now. As such, I'd like to think we've been a bit ahead of the curve in terms of recognizing the problem and actually doing something against it. In that context, the still on-going use of coal ain't exactly great, but the reasons for that are way more political (miner jobs) than anything else. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomgesetz_(Deutschland)#Novellierung_2002 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomgesetz_(Deutschland)#Novel... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Sources_Act#Renewable_Energy_Sources_Act_(2000) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source...