Someone wants to be gifted a ton of nuclear waste.
Somehow Germans dislike the idea to leave their radioactive trash to their children and grandchildren.
Perhaps she should think about what the real-world results of her stupid anti-nuclear campaign were likely to be and stop acting surprised or innocent.
Regardless of whether one agrees with this stance, it is extremely funny how quickly she went from “ought to be ignored” to “respected expert” in the estimation of many conservatives and liberals on this specific topic and this topic alone.
Ideally Germany would have built new Nuclear plants to replace their aging ones. But keeping plants long slated for decommissioning running and possibly causing a disaster that would kill support for nuclear across the rest of Europe is a valid concern (even if most anti-nuclear paranoia has no valid basis).
Spending a winter in the 19th century is better than freezing or succumbing to Russian energy extortion.
Thats some hot take… Now there’s not a lot of alternatives. Most nuclear power plants are shut down and in the process of demolition, a process that will go on for most of Greta’s life time btw.
So using nuclear would be only viable for three power plants still in Operation that reach their planned shut down date by the end of next Winter (already extended by the green party who originally voted to shut them down)
After that Nuclear is just way to expensive compared to renewables (nuclear is NOT renewable!).
Should germany have exited fossils or specifically coal power before nuclear? Probably. But this decision was made about ten years ago to go do it this way.
FYI, this exact news was removed by the mods on r/germany because they don’t want to see anymore “nuclear great!” posts.
Reading Axel-Springer’s Politico is also a very bad idea.
Considering she’s a big reason of why countries also started programmes of shutting down nuclear, she can look in the mirror first.
That’s ironic, she was cheering when we shut down two of our major reactors which resulted in us having to burn oil.
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Oh god Karen ….
Someone wants to be gifted a ton of nuclear waste.
Somehow Germans dislike the idea to leave their radioactive trash to their children and grandchildren.
Perhaps she should think about what the real-world results of her stupid anti-nuclear campaign were likely to be and stop acting surprised or innocent.
Regardless of whether one agrees with this stance, it is extremely funny how quickly she went from “ought to be ignored” to “respected expert” in the estimation of many conservatives and liberals on this specific topic and this topic alone.
Ideally Germany would have built new Nuclear plants to replace their aging ones. But keeping plants long slated for decommissioning running and possibly causing a disaster that would kill support for nuclear across the rest of Europe is a valid concern (even if most anti-nuclear paranoia has no valid basis).
Spending a winter in the 19th century is better than freezing or succumbing to Russian energy extortion.
Thats some hot take… Now there’s not a lot of alternatives. Most nuclear power plants are shut down and in the process of demolition, a process that will go on for most of Greta’s life time btw.
So using nuclear would be only viable for three power plants still in Operation that reach their planned shut down date by the end of next Winter (already extended by the green party who originally voted to shut them down)
After that Nuclear is just way to expensive compared to renewables (nuclear is NOT renewable!).
Should germany have exited fossils or specifically coal power before nuclear? Probably. But this decision was made about ten years ago to go do it this way.
FYI, this exact news was removed by the mods on r/germany because they don’t want to see anymore “nuclear great!” posts.
Reading Axel-Springer’s Politico is also a very bad idea.
Considering she’s a big reason of why countries also started programmes of shutting down nuclear, she can look in the mirror first.
That’s ironic, she was cheering when we shut down two of our major reactors which resulted in us having to burn oil.