I found this story to be informative, about why Germany closed their nuclear power plants. I think that context can defuse a lot of arguments about Germany's decision.
I didn't know a lot of what was written in the article but as a German I can say that it reads reasonable and makes sense for me. It overlaps with what I learned at school and in general.
The article misses the important factor of war.
Germany has coal in their ground, quite a lot. In case of a war, Germany doesn't need to get coal from anywhere but from themselves.
Nuclear material is much more complicated to get.
Which makes maintaining coal infrastructure more reasonable from a military perspective.
Also nuclear reactors are great military targets....
Coal is being phased out as well
They will phase it out but they will keep them ready enough to use.
It would be stupid not, they're probably a lot easier to reactivate then nuclear power plants
I found this story to be informative, about why Germany closed their nuclear power plants. I think that context can defuse a lot of arguments about Germany's decision.
I didn't know a lot of what was written in the article but as a German I can say that it reads reasonable and makes sense for me. It overlaps with what I learned at school and in general.
The article misses the important factor of war.
Germany has coal in their ground, quite a lot. In case of a war, Germany doesn't need to get coal from anywhere but from themselves.
Nuclear material is much more complicated to get.
Which makes maintaining coal infrastructure more reasonable from a military perspective.
Also nuclear reactors are great military targets....
Coal is being phased out as well
They will phase it out but they will keep them ready enough to use.
It would be stupid not, they're probably a lot easier to reactivate then nuclear power plants