Watching Germany do anything related to nuclear energy or waste is like the people in in infomercials failing to do very basic tasks. Get your act together.
I tend to agree. However, turning them off is partially exactly getting the act together.
The very big problem is that at the same time particularly southern German states fail to support renewables and power distribution lines.
So while there was a time line. One part of the time line was missed. So everyone decided to rather count on Russian gas as an intermediary solution with the known geopolitical consequences that followed.
PS: Strange twist: There is a German company that now wants to produce fuel elements for Russian nuclear power plants...
> turning them off is partially exactly getting the act together.
Only from an old-school deeply irrational fear of nuclear energy perspective. Now that we know how catastrophic climate change could be the rational choice would be to replace all coal and gas with nuclear. Germans also really need to understand just how critical cheap and reliable electricity is to quality of life and GDP. Germany is making very bad decisions for deeply ideological reasons divorced from any understanding of real world technological limitations.
The very big problem is that at the same time particularly southern German states fail to support renewables and power distribution lines.
So while there was a time line. One part of the time line was missed. So everyone decided to rather count on Russian gas as an intermediary solution with the known geopolitical consequences that followed.
PS: Strange twist: There is a German company that now wants to produce fuel elements for Russian nuclear power plants...