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  • Do you know how old they were? We would have to shut them down anyway because they started reaching end of life. There was no new project for decades already. It’s a complicated political situation and it’s fucking arrogant for you to come in, scream about “nUcLeAr Is BesT” without knowing the details. Even the energy companies didn’t want to keep the plants running at the end. So please let us try to do our Energiewende, we progressives in Germany have enough trouble with our stupid conservatives


  • I don’t have faith our governments will switch to 100% renewable,

    But you have faith they will be responsible for a nuclear power plant and won’t allow any shortcuts in maintenance and keep it safe?

    We need to actively start scrubbing CO2 out of the atmosphere, and we’re going to need as much power as we can generate for that.

    Technical scrubbing is way to inefficient. It is powers of magnitude more efficient to invest in plants which build up the humus layer of fields, you can store way more CO2 that way.

    Nuclear is expensive because it’s relatively rare. Economies of scale don’t apply to it as is. If we start building, it will become cheaper. Not cheap, perhaps, but cheaper. And it’s a cost worth paying. We are already paying the price for the “cheap” fossil fuels.

    But if we spend the same amount of money for renewables+storage we get more power per dollar.