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Oh man, again? The Greens didn't shut down the NPPs, the CDU/CSU/FDP government under Merkel did after Fukishima, screwing over the previously well done plan f
by hef19898 3y ago
Oh man, again?
The Greens didn't shut down the NPPs, the CDU/CSU/FDP government under Merkel did after Fukishima, screwing over the previously well done plan from the SPD/Green government.
And no, NPPs were not replaced with gas, Germany never really burned gas for electricity. They were replaced, over time since nobody shut them down over night, by a mix of renewables (mainly solar and wind) and coal (bad enough, but at a cobstabt decline regardless).
Fun fact: It was the Greens that kept the German NPPs running way beyond the plqn, as long as safely possible with the available fuel, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- ImJamal 3y agoThe SPD/Greens shut down the Stade Nuclear Power Plant in 2003 and the Obrigheim Nuclear Power Plant in 2005. As far as I know this was not "all" that the person you were responding to said, but they absolutely did shut down nuclear plants.
- hef19898 3y agoEverybody is shutting down plants all the time. Because guess what, those power plants have a service life, an economical and a technical one. When one is reached, the plant gets shut down. Whomever is at the helms of goverment doesn't matter, capitalism takes care of this. More important is who set whick policy. The SPD / Green goverment defined a pretty well thought out nuclear exit strategy, one the industry supported. And then the new CDU/CSU/FDP government nixed that policy, only to hastely introduce a a shitty versiom of the previous exit after Fukushima. Under which government a plant then get shut down isn't relevant. By the same logic, one could make the Greens the most pro-nuclear party there is, because a Green minister extended the life time of the German NPPs as much as possible. Because the Green absolutely did that, too.
- ImJamal 3y agoI don't think Stade was past its service life. It was only around for 30 years. Obrigheim which they shut down was far older. Do you have any evidence that Stade was actually past its service life? You mentioning the other parties is completely irrelevant since I am not saying the other parties did not also shut down nuclear, only that SPD/Greens did.
- hef19898 3y agoIf I go by the German wiki page on the NPP Stade, e.ON (the operating company at time of shut down) cited economic reasons for the shutdown. As I said, either service life or economic operational limits.
- ImJamal 3y agoSo you admit that the Greens shut down nuclear power like my entire point was?