Meanwhile in Germany:

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    Sorry I still don’t get it: why not reviving this debate? It’s never too late to kick-off construction of new nuclear plants.

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      do you know how long it takes until a nuclear powerplant is planned and built?

      Until then renewables are 20x cheaper then nuclear power.

      the debate has gone one or the other way for years. the people don’t want nuclear power, only our conservative, corrupt parties want it and try to push it every few years; thankfully without any luck.

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        I know perfectly well that we’re talking about decades of planning, yeah. I still believe every country will need a mix of different energy sources on top of renewables. I think Germany is very short-sighted there.

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      Constructing new ones take waaaaaaaaaaay too long and is much more expensive than building equally power capable regenerative energy plants in a fraction of that time.

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      Germans and their anti-nuclear cult have convinced themselves of a lot of falsehoods. It’s impossible to argue.

      Germany is a small country (compared to the USA or China), which means they can easily trade with their neighbors. So, they will just overbuild renewables and trade for nuclear electricity with their neighbors, including us (Netherlands), but mostly Poland and France, which will build the most nuclear plants in the EU.

      That’s the plan we compromised in the EU.

      They pretend to be nuclear free and we go along with their delusion.