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The way I remember this, after the Fukushima disaster there were some state level elections, the center-right parties that had until then supported nuclear lost
by amadeuspagel 4y ago
The way I remember this, after the Fukushima disaster there were some state level elections, the center-right parties that had until then supported nuclear lost one or two of these elections due to voter panic about Fukushima and then abandoned their support for nuclear. I really think that if the state level election calender had been different, germany would still use nuclear power today.
- _ph_ 4y agoNot sure, Fukushima was pretty scary considering the high esteem Japanese engineering has in Germany. Not sure what the deciding factor was, but indeed their remaining run time was shortened, the 2001 decision was targetting for a shutdown between 2025 and 2027.