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by BSVogler 1529 days ago
You cannot simply do that. This was planned for years and there is no training for staff, contracts like insurance, a location to put the additional waste etc. to prolong the usage of nuclear power plants.
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The nuclear plants in Germany are not insured, because the estimated 10 Trillion Euro a catastrophic failure would cause is out of question for any insurer.

Therfore the German state takes the risk.