Please 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 anci

Please 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.