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Flawed logic. Closing the nuclear plants has very large, real, tangible and undeniable costs. One cannot discuss the cost of opening them while ignoring the cos
by mdavis6890 5y ago
Flawed logic. Closing the nuclear plants has very large, real, tangible and undeniable costs. One cannot discuss the cost of opening them while ignoring the costs of closing them.
- omgwtfbyobbq 5y ago>while also weighing the risks of continuing to support Russia. There are many options. Specifically, Germany can... 1) Continue with BAU, which is Germany paying the costs of closing the reactors and relying on Russian gas. 2) Restart them as quickly as possible. This would minimize the costs of relying on Russia for gas, but would increase the risks of reactor problems from natural disasters. 3) Harden them for natural disasters while restarting them as quickly as possible, which costs more. 4) Use the money spent to harden them on other sources of generation/storage/load shifting/etc, which I suspect costs more. 5) Some of the above based on the specifics in each case. In addition, Germany would still be reliant on Russian gas for other industrial uses even if nuclear/renewables/coal/storage/etc were able to completely replace gas in the grid.