> - They don't want nuclear because politics. No. Because Fukushima. At the end of 2010 Germany enacted a law extending the operating life of nuclear reactor

> - They don't want nuclear because politics. No. Because Fukushima. At the end of 2010 Germany enacted a law extending the operating life of nuclear reactors. Then Fukushima happened and all political parties in Germany closed nuclear reactors: https://x.com/HannoKlausmeier/status/1784158942823690561 https://x.com/HannoKlausmeier/status/1784158942823690561 > sold by a Greenpeace-affiliated Facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Planet_Energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Planet_Energy > The only other solution left is coal, Facts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41768679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41768679 Yes, coal is a disaster. Nuclear risks (major accident, waste, proliferation...) is a potential disaster. > deaths in neighbouring countries, every year True, and quite sad. No nation yells because each is a culprit: emissions caused by France's fossil fuels (transportation, industry...) is far superior to those of the German gridpower system. We can agree that all this is a catastrophic state of affairs. Germany's nuclear phaseout is a drop in the sea and wasn't conducted due to some whim. > Nuclear is like air travel : spectacular when it fails, but much safer The amount of victims of past accident is controversial, therefore this is controversial.