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Anybody only "wondering" about that didn't try to look into the history of Germany and nuclear. It's home to one of the first long term nuclear storage sites in
by freeflight 4y ago
Anybody only "wondering" about that didn't try to look into the history of Germany and nuclear. It's home to one of the first long term nuclear storage sites in history, supposed to store the stuff for centuries, yet after only decades its become a generational mess.
Add Chernobyl, Fukushima and the nuclear industry refusing to pay for the disposal of their waste, and Germany is a prime example of how and why nuclear fission is neither economical, nor sustainable.
> Especially that it hasn't happened in the neighboring France.
It's also happening in neighboring France [0], half their fleet has been offline for most of the summer [1]. A fleet that's already underfunded by billions [2], that's why the French reinvestment into new reactors was a very conservative and modest one with basically no reference to how even that will be financed.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/edf-extend-civaux-nuclear-outage-shut-down-reactors-chooz-safety-measures-2021-12-15/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/edf-extend-civaux-nuc...
[1] https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04/30/681274/French-authorities-say-half-of-nuclear-power-plants-are-now-offline-for-maintenance-or-defects https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04/30/681274/French-autho...,
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-nuclear-idUKKCN0VP2KN https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-nuclear-idUKKCN0VP...