Maybe both the German and the Japanese approaches to nuclear are both wrong except in opposite ways. The Germans can afford to be needlessly picky about nuclea

Maybe both the German and the Japanese approaches to nuclear are both wrong except in opposite ways. The Germans can afford to be needlessly picky about nuclear in their own country since if they have an electricity shortage they can simply buy the deficit from the European grid or they can kill themselves slowly by burning their lignite reserves, the nastiest, dirtiest type coal in existence. Japan, being an isolated island nation that's poor in natural resources, doesn't have this luxury so they're YOLOing it on old nuclear plants.