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by DrillShopper 493 days ago
And then they killed the nuke plants for coal because they're scared little babies.
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Nuke had no future in Germany. The plants haven't had security maintenance in many years because it all was relaxed due to the pending shutdown, the plants were many decades old, we don't have a place to store spent fuel (unlike Americans who have ample desert space where no one is ever gonna be bothered), new fuel comes to a shocking amount from Russia, constructing new plants takes >>10 years and many billions of euros.
The nukes not having a future in Germany is completely down to the Green Party and their pathological obsession with killing nuclear power.

They organized and succeeded.

Where was the opposition? Is the entire German environmental movement beholden to the Green Party?

The final decision to shutdown the nuclear plants happened under a conservative CDU-led government.

And even it they don't seem to have memory now of doing so, I applaud them for this specific decision back then.

Germans never really liked nuclear power from the start, all NPPs drew massive local opposition that was by far not just the back-then new Green Party.
Is the term for NIMBY in German the same as it is in English?
There have never been any grid-scale nuclear power plants in the state of Berlin. I don't see how this statement relates to the prior discussion in any way other than vague geographic proximity.