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Well, you know Japan is just acting like that because they didn’t have a Fukushima like Germant. Oh, wait! On a more serious note: Since the beginning of the

Well, you know Japan is just acting like that because they didn’t have a Fukushima like Germant. Oh, wait! On a more serious note: Since the beginning of the Ukraine-Russian war, Germany fully returned 19 coal-fired power units with a total generating capacity of 7.3 GW to the electricity market: > https://www.smard.de/home/rueckkehr-von-kohlekraftwerken-an-den-strommarkt-209208 https://www.smard.de/home/rueckkehr-von-kohlekraftwerken-an-... Germany’s last remaining six reactors had a capacity of 8.5 GW: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Germany#Nuclear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Germ... Germany made a conscious decision for coal and against the climate!

wewxjfq 4y ago
Germany had only three nuclear power plants in 2022, so 4 GW. And since they could only serve about 0.5 GW of peak demand, Germany needed to reactivate coal power plants regardless. Furthermore, the NPPs were planned to be shut-down years ago, you can't flip a switch and keep them going. They have no fuel, no staff, no certifications. Refueling the last NPPs would have required to take them offline for several months, right at the time Germany needed electricity the most. And the other NPPs that were decommissioned are gone forever, even if they weren't in deconstruction, there are countless of obstacles that won't ever bring them back.