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Nuke had no future in Germany. The plants haven't had security maintenance in many years because it all was relaxed due to the pending shutdown, the plants were
by mschuster91 2y ago
Nuke had no future in Germany. The plants haven't had security maintenance in many years because it all was relaxed due to the pending shutdown, the plants were many decades old, we don't have a place to store spent fuel (unlike Americans who have ample desert space where no one is ever gonna be bothered), new fuel comes to a shocking amount from Russia, constructing new plants takes >>10 years and many billions of euros.
- DrillShopper 2y agoThe nukes not having a future in Germany is completely down to the Green Party and their pathological obsession with killing nuclear power. They organized and succeeded. Where was the opposition? Is the entire German environmental movement beholden to the Green Party?
- mschuster91 2y agoGermans never really liked nuclear power from the start, all NPPs drew massive local opposition that was by far not just the back-then new Green Party.
- DrillShopper 2y agoIs the term for NIMBY in German the same as it is in English?
- eliaspro 2y agoThe final decision to shutdown the nuclear plants happened under a conservative CDU-led government. And even it they don't seem to have memory now of doing so, I applaud them for this specific decision back then.