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shady8x t1_j4b96es wrote

Reply to comment by BloodIsTaken in Germany plans to destroy this village for a coal mine. Thousands are gathering to stop it by LaminatedDenim

You know that nuclear plants are not a long lost technology and people can build new ones right? The shutting down of old plants could have coincided with the building of new ones...

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Plastic_Wave t1_j4bsxiu wrote

No no, you don't understand. 3 mile island happened at the infancy of nuclear power generation when it was still poorly understood. It's not like 70 years worth of advancement in technology hasn't brought several generations of reactors with new safety standards or anything. So Lord knows we can't have nuclear power now, what if we have a repeat of Chernobyl or 3 mile island?

We have to shut it down

/s

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BloodIsTaken t1_j4bcexx wrote

You do know that it takes years, if not over a decade to build new ones? Additionally, nuclear energy is very expensive - from the beginning of construction until operation several years go by where the NPP doesn’t generate energy, it takes a lot of resources to build.

Wind and Solar energy sources are much cheaper, easier and faster to build. They also don’t need fuel (the uranium Germany got for their NPPs largely came from Russia) and are much safer - NPPs need water for cooling, which is a problem in case of droughts as can be seen in France. They have to shut down some NPPs in winter and instead get their energy from - you guessed it - Germany.

Wind turbines have to be shut down if the wind is too strong. However, that doesn’t happen too often and - unlike NPPs, shutting down and restarting wind turbines is much easier and faster to do than with NPPs.

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shady8x t1_j4bdflb wrote

>You do know that it takes years, if not over a decade to build new ones?

The phase out policy was introduced in 1998. It was cancelled, but then re-introduced in 2011, which is still over a decade ago.

So like I said before, the shutting down of old plants could have coincided with the building of new ones.

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Ilfirion t1_j4l0434 wrote

It at least seems that German energy experts agree on the following: Would the CDU followed the plan payed down by the spd/ green government - renewable mercy would have been enough to phase out coal and nuclear. But the CDU and the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg would actually need to stop dragging their feet in that department.

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Ocular_Username t1_j4dotg3 wrote

> You do know that it takes years, if not over a decade to build new ones?

I heard this argument in the 1990s. Then the 2000s. Then the 2010s. And now.

Weird.

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