There was a really public fight for years between the federal government and some states about the final repository of nuclear waste without any conclusion we o

There was a really public fight for years between the federal government and some states about the final repository of nuclear waste without any conclusion we officially still don't have one. Besides that we have a mine full of leaking radiation barrels because we were one of the few countries that did not drop their early nuclear waste into the ocean. There were also some pretty rough clashes between police and people demonstrating castor transports that were televised publicly. We also got a lot of fallout after Tschernobyl with mandates like don't eat forest mushrooms or lettuce from your own garden for years after the incident which helped our green party to establish themselves as a big part of our political system. They were part of the government for 8 years under Schröder and again now. They are the third biggest political party in our country for a long time now. All that combined made everyone pretty skeptic for nuclear power.