Maintenance on aging plants is also very expensive (just ask the French) and German plants were getting long in the tooth. Decommissioning is also very, very e

Maintenance on aging plants is also very expensive (just ask the French) and German plants were getting long in the tooth. Decommissioning is also very, very expensive, and disasters like Fukushima are also very very very expensive (that one cost about $1 trillion). It wasn't some secret plot by Russia. Russia exported most of the uranium they used. Fukushima just made nuclear power more of a headache than it was worth, especially given the cost and pressure from the environmental movement (who had agency, despite what you might believe). The reliance that the US/Europe had on Russian uranium is, in fact, one reason why it was never sanctioned. The greens in Germany are mostly captured by America these days - that's why they shifted to becoming massive war hawks.