Oh please, you make it look like it wasn't Germany jumping in when your old and already long overdue reactors fell apart again and need to be shut down for rep

Oh please, you make it look like it wasn't Germany jumping in when your old and already long overdue reactors fell apart again and need to be shut down for repairs or when your rivers were too hot because...summer and they couldn't provide cooling anymore. Germany is moving away from coal. They have a plan, a timeline and everything that was slowing them down was politics. There are voters to be lost around coal. Especially in the east where right wing populists are getting strong. It was not about power requirements (https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=374 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=374) and the only reason this one coal plant is being opened is because they got the allowance for it before the whole political process started and buying them out of it would cost even more than the industry is getting through massive lobbying. Which brings us back to costs: those astronomical amounts of money Germany drowned into nuclear energy just to sit on it's remains for hundreds and hundreds of years costing the taxpayer while they get nothing back for it. There is absolutely no need for more of the same when there are alternative energies which get better from year to year and decade to decade and do not leave radioactive was behind them. For further reading on costs of this dead energy: https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/emc2ne/quelle_surprise_frankreich_verzichtet_vorerst/fdoxtt3/ https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/emc2ne/quelle_surprise_... (fixed link to english version)