[WinstonSmith84]

Nuclear is very cheap when you have an available power plant like Germany has... but instead decides to shut it down because that's not politically acceptable to use them

[andromeduck]

I think public opinion has shifted actually, but greens are still very ideologically opposed and a member of the coalition government.

[schnuri]

The plants in Germany would have been due for expensive maintenance and they are old. (Maybe not EOL old but old)