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That's excellent, but we should be replacing coal, not nuclear. At least not in this order. By having renewable replace nuclear you win nothing and coal keeps p
by Aachen 5y ago
That's excellent, but we should be replacing coal, not nuclear. At least not in this order. By having renewable replace nuclear you win nothing and coal keeps polluting just as much as it did before because you're not replacing coal. So yes, killing nuclear first obviously causes more pollution from coal.
- fsh 5y agoPlease have a careful look at the plot again. The electricity production from coal dropped by something like 50% in the last 10 years. Of course Germany's ancient nuclear reactors could have been kept running by a bit longer, but the overall effect would not have been dramatic. On the other hand, old GE-designed boiling water reactors suffered a bit of an image problem after three of them melted down in Fukushima.