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  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    It gets brought up EVERY time, as evidence of German foolishness by American nuclear power technoutopians.

    Yes, it was a bad decision in terms of what was good for humanity, due to its at least medium term effects, but

    What's good for humanity isn't always good for capital. They got closed because

    1. Merkel got spooked by the Green Party's electoral result in 2011 Baden-Württemberg

    2. It was a gift to the mining corporation RWE

      • fatman [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Even if power plants where built it would only be like a quarter of total energy use and uranium mining would have to get more carbon intensive with each plant.

        It's too late for nuclear anyway. We're facing the hottest temperatures on record this week throughout the world. If we where in control would it really be a good idea to have to keep so many spent fuel casks cool for at minimum ten given the kind of disruptions coming. Not to mention relying on thermal power plants close to the sea and rivers?

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          It's too late for nuclear anyway. We're facing the hottest temperatures on record this week throughout the world

          Better rev up those coal power plants then

            • 7bicycles [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              There's a theoretical possibility to have gone from nuclear to reneweables. Or just straight up renewables, depending on how far back in time you wanna go.

              There just wasn't an actual one and if you weren't aware of that and then go work towards nuclear power plants being shut off because the enviroment where it's pretty fucking obvious they're just gonna fire up coal power plants: congratulations, you are the greens of germany and have achieved nothing

          • fatman [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            And Chernobyl accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union. It could have also made it uninhabitable if it wasn't for the scuba guys.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              This is not true. I'm not even sure what you're implying, but nothing about the Chernobyl disaster could have made the USSR "uninhabitable".