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> What Germany did was very quickly turn off all nuclear power plants without any plans on replacing them with sustainable alternatives.

This is not quite correct.

The first decision to phase-out nuclear was made around the year 2000 [1]. Its initial date for the shutdown of the last nuclear reactor was set to be 2022. The plan was agreed upon by the owners of these plans.

Around 2010, this first decision was taken back, and a few months later, Fukushima happened. This led to the second decision to phase-out nuclear.

Only then, eight of 17 reactors were turned off quickly. But this had no major impact, because the switch to renewables was already under way for ten years.

Compare Germany's coal consumption after Fukushima with Japan's, and you'll noticed the difference.

[1] https://wiki.energytransition.org/the-book/policies-for-clea...