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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

Germany will literally do anything to avoid undoing the foolish

Germany counts on back-up coal power plants to drive down prices - euractiv
euractiv.com/section/eet/news/

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nightoo

@jmaris the Atomausstieg may have been a mistake, but there's absolutely no point in reversing that now. If you start planning a new nuclear plant now, it'll be finished by 2040 if you're lucky. Way too late to help figut climate change

Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

@nightoo there are several plants which could be brought back online if the political will is there. I'm fed up of my electricity prices paying for Germany's recklessness, and so are many other Europeans.

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nightoo

@jmaris
The first point is difficult to argue about. The only ones currently believing that's possible are the nuclear lobby apparently. The operators themselves don't think it's possible for various reasons.

The idea that you are paying for German electricity prices also seems to be wrong. Germany's electricity production increased after the Atomausstieg, and imports of nuclear haven't changed.
I can highly recommend this report: worldnuclearreport.org/Q-A-Ger
Especially section 4

World Nuclear Industry Status Report · Q&A - Germany’s nuclear exit: One year afterDecades of debates came to an end in April 2023, when Germany finally shuttered its last nuclear power plants after the energy crisis. One year on, predictions of supply risks, price hikes and (…)
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