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No company wants to run the plants, they are very old, expensive and only ever provided 5% of the energy anyway. The population overwhelmingly rejects it (right

by quonn 4y ago

No company wants to run the plants, they are very old, expensive and only ever provided 5% of the energy anyway. The population overwhelmingly rejects it (rightfully so) and nobody wants the fuel dumped in their backyard later. And the locations we had planned for that is broken.

JanSt 4y ago
1) they are some of the most modern plants on this planet, upgraded very regualary 2)The companies do want to run them, just bot under the imposed conditions and constant exit threat. Preussen Elektra lobbied to keep them running constantly 3)They provided vastly more in the past but got axed piece by piece 4) around 80% currently want to keep them running, especially younger people 5) in other news, no one wants climate change. And no garden was requested as waste storage yet.
- quonn 4y ago
  1) Most were built in the 70s, the ones still running were all built in 1982. Since then the safety precautions have changed considerably and this cannot be retrofitted. This is also part of the reason why new plants are much more expensive. Has nothing to do with "upgrading". 2) The majority of German companies do not want to return to nuclear: “The phasing out of nuclear energy was decided in 2011 in a political and social consensus and is clearly regulated by law. The use of nuclear energy for electricity production has therefore ended in Germany.” This decision was made by the conservative Merkel government, not by the green party. "The dismantling of the power plants, the disposal of radioactive material, the search for a repository - all of this consumes enormous sums of money. German authorities and research institutes are therefore expecting up to 34 cents per kilowatt hour for nuclear power - by far the highest price of all forms of energy." https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/energie/energiewende-kernenergie-hat-sich-fuer-deutschland-erledigt-warum-die-energiekonzerne-keine-rueckkehr-der-atomkraft-wollen/27781670.html https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/energie/energiewend... 3) The have provided a greater part of the electricity, not of the energy needs. 4) The decision was made in 2011, data shows only 21% in favour of nuclear. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/196207/umfrage/meinung-zum-gebrauch-von-atomenergie-in-deutschland/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/196207/umfrag... 5) Backyard does not mean garden. It means near a village for example.
  - polotics 4y ago
    As opposed to lignite mining where whole villages get replaced by large holes in the ground....

by quonn 4y ago

JanSt 4y ago

1) they are some of the most modern plants on this planet, upgraded very regualary 2)The companies do want to run them, just bot under the imposed conditions and constant exit threat. Preussen Elektra lobbied to keep them running constantly 3)They provided vastly more in the past but got axed piece by piece 4) around 80% currently want to keep them running, especially younger people 5) in other news, no one wants climate change. And no garden was requested as waste storage yet.

quonn 4y ago
1) Most were built in the 70s, the ones still running were all built in 1982. Since then the safety precautions have changed considerably and this cannot be retrofitted. This is also part of the reason why new plants are much more expensive. Has nothing to do with "upgrading". 2) The majority of German companies do not want to return to nuclear: “The phasing out of nuclear energy was decided in 2011 in a political and social consensus and is clearly regulated by law. The use of nuclear energy for electricity production has therefore ended in Germany.” This decision was made by the conservative Merkel government, not by the green party. "The dismantling of the power plants, the disposal of radioactive material, the search for a repository - all of this consumes enormous sums of money. German authorities and research institutes are therefore expecting up to 34 cents per kilowatt hour for nuclear power - by far the highest price of all forms of energy." https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/energie/energiewende-kernenergie-hat-sich-fuer-deutschland-erledigt-warum-die-energiekonzerne-keine-rueckkehr-der-atomkraft-wollen/27781670.html https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/energie/energiewend... 3) The have provided a greater part of the electricity, not of the energy needs. 4) The decision was made in 2011, data shows only 21% in favour of nuclear. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/196207/umfrage/meinung-zum-gebrauch-von-atomenergie-in-deutschland/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/196207/umfrag... 5) Backyard does not mean garden. It means near a village for example.
- polotics 4y ago
  As opposed to lignite mining where whole villages get replaced by large holes in the ground....