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Germans have always been anti-nuclear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Ge

• Ericson2314 5y ago
  Longer insanity is not less insanity!
  • monopoledance 5y ago
    It's democracy. We were much closer to Chernobyl, than all the Americans promoting yesterday's easy future here. Some parts in Germany are suffering the fallout still, when mushrooms and wild game make the Geiger counters beep in the news. Germany is extremely population dense and nobody wants to live next to radioactive waste. Especially in rich Bavaria were all the AKWs have been build (and where they had suitable rock to bury it). No one here wants nuclear power. Not even the energy producers. There is no lobby, no support, no future for Atomkraftwerke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer
    • smotah 5y ago
      > nobody wants to live next to radioactive waste. It seems irrational as sealed high profile waste doesn't leak any radiations beyond the natural ambiant radioactive noise. The problem may arise in a very long time due to water molecules progressively entering and exiting the enclosure during thousands of years. One could live and sleep every night in a nuclear waste storage building and nothing will happen to them. Similarly, one could swim in nuclear fuel cooling pools everyday and won't have any problem either. It's way more problematic for health to live next to a coal power plant.
      • monopoledance 5y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer
      • HansHamster 5y ago
        > The problem may arise in a very long time due to water molecules progressively entering and exiting the enclosure during thousands of years. Or you know, after a couple of decades because the storage containers really don't like salt water and start to corrode. And as recovery of the waste was not foreseen initially, it gets really difficult and expensive now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine
• themitigating 5y ago
  "We've always hated X therefore X must be bad"
• clavicat 5y ago
  The history of twentieth century tells us that Germans have questionable judgement and bad opinions.
  • dane-pgp 5y ago
    If you think that Germans are capable of making multiple terrible political decisions in the space of a century, then why do you trust them to operate and regulate nuclear reactors and safely store their waste for thousands of years?