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It wasn't a knee-jerk reaction, at least not in proper context. German nuclear exit was organized in the 90-2000s, formally under the red-green Schröder governm
by Barrin92 5y ago
It wasn't a knee-jerk reaction, at least not in proper context. German nuclear exit was organized in the 90-2000s, formally under the red-green Schröder government, then delayed under the conservative government afterwards (so called Ausstieg vom Ausstieg) and then again overturned after Fukushima.
It's largely a secular trend in most of the world as nuclear energy usage has continued to fall, mostly for financial reasons.
- hef19898 5y agoThe first exit was surprisingly well planned, for the time. Obviously back then climate change wasn't even close to as urgent as it is now. The overturned Ausstieg-vom-Ausstieg was a knee-jerk reaction to a change in public opinion, a change that included traditionally conservative voters.
- jabl 5y agoAnd after securing the nuclear exit and leaving political office Schröder got a board seat at the Nordstream gas pipeline project. How... convenient. Germany was going to switch to renewables? Yeah, haha, good one.