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> Europe is just too small and too densely populated to risk nuklear accidents. Maybe, if we built new safe reactors it wouldn't be a problem. That said, it's
by jopsen 5y ago
> Europe is just too small and too densely populated to risk nuklear accidents.
Maybe, if we built new safe reactors it wouldn't be a problem.
That said, it's probably faster to go renewable -- so is it too much to ask that Germany doesn't build more cold fired plants?
- flohofwoe 5y agoAs far as I'm aware, no new coal plants will be built: https://www.powermag.com/germany-brings-last-new-coal-plant-online/ https://www.powermag.com/germany-brings-last-new-coal-plant-... Coal seems to be roughly on the same trajectory as nuclear, and since around 2015 on a much sharper decline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany
- pantalaimon 5y agoDatteln 4 just started operating last year
- flohofwoe 5y agoAnd that was the last one, meanwhile 8 other coal power plants had been closed in the same year. Planning and building power plants takes a long time, especially in Germany, where all big construction projects take forever. It's clear that there's gonna be some overlap between old and new plans.