Should Germany turn back to nuclear energy? | DW News

Germany decided to phase out its nuclear power completely following a 2011 decision by the parliament. The last nuclear reactors were shut down in April 2023. Advocates of nuclear energy say it’s a relatively clean source with little direct emissions. But here in Germany, there is little enthusiasm for a potential restart.

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[Gaze]

Funny how the think tanks in germany decided to destroy their entire economy because a tsunami hit something in japan.

[ferrothorn]

Nuclear power is by far the best for the environment

[NothingEverHappens-Chud]

1.Yes
2. Yes again
3. Yes one more time

[post_eternity]

This is a no-brainer.
Energy stability and independence are non-negotiable.
USA and France are enjoying the benefits.

[speculawyer]

It is not simple but their existing reactors should be turned back on. They are much cleaner than coal and don't require Russian gas.

[k_l_disburden]

We’re literally buying nuclear power from France. We are becoming more and more dependent.

[Gwenpool]

A lot of people here are saying NO. But i would rather next to a Nuclear power plant than a coal power plant or coal mine. Also, fix your electrical transmission Germany! The country has had too much wind in the north and had to turn wind turbines off while the south had to crank up coal because green energy dipped there. You need more transmission lines!

[aground]

We call the Greens the watermelons. Because they are green in the outside and red on the inside. Not only is nuclear better for the planet, it is a Soviet psyop.

[MoonMan]

Its far more expensive to not have enough of planable electricity for Germanys massive industry and to only be able to run at full capacity when the wind blows.

Whats Germanys solution for that?
Buy in costly electricity from the rest of Europe & fire up the good old coal plants🏭

Wow the green germans are really saving the climate here😂

[Wolfie_]

yes it is cheap, safe, and easy on the environment

the only thing you need to make sure is that you dont build it fast and cheap for the sake of being cheap like the RBMK reactors the soviet union made which even then there were 26 made and only one blew up

[darploin]

Yes they need clean cheap energy it was full Hardy to shut them down in the first place what you should have done was replace older reactors with much newer and safer ones turn on your actors give Germans a financial break

[michaelvanallen]

*The reality of nuclear power plants worldwide: 1) Not a single nuclear power plant is currently under construction in the USA, EU and Japan! 2) The construction times of the last nuclear power plants built there were always over 15 years. 3) All nuclear power plants built in Europe/USA/Japan since 2005 have increased in price by over 200%. The resulting electricity price is over 15 cents/kWh.*
Just google: "nuclear power plant, costs" - and then the name of the nuclear power plant Flamanville/F (24 billion instead of 3 billion according to the Court of Auditors!), Hinkley Point/UK, Olkiluoto/FIN, Oma/Japan, Vogtle and Virgil Summers/USA. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), RENEWABLE ENERGIES will already account for over 50% of electricity worldwide by 2030!

[NWer-cu]

quote:
In April 2023 she [Claudia Kempfert] published a study for the Greens, justifying the German Nuclear power phase-out. In it, Kempfert concluded that Nuclear power has always been among the most expensive forms of energy, unable to compete with prices for fossil or renewable forms of energy production. The study used investment projects in nuclear power, which had exceeded their budget, like the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, to support its findings, while projects, which stayed in budget, were widely ignored.*

*"Die Grünen-Flüsterin: wie eine Ökonomin Munition für den Kampf gegen die Kernkraft lieferte". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 April 2023.

[TheWereOwl]

Well would you rather have a nuclear reactor that has failed a handful of times since it was created or oil based that has many times polluted the environment and produces pollution

[lkjoess]

Ai is the future which needs massive power supply. Any suitable except nuclear?

[chrislambaa]

There has been big issues with the waste management too. Poorly stored and leaking into the surroundings and the company going bankrupt leaving a huge bill for the goverment.
Solar and wind has become cheaper in the last decade and is now by far chepaer than nuclear.
Lastly Russia is one of the worlds biggest producers of materials for nuclear facilities. That alone should make it a no.

[berndhofmann]

I'm sorry, nuclear energy is very costly!

I'm a German management consultant and i worked a lot with our energy companies here. There are too many risks in our densly populated country! In vast countries like USA or Russia i see no problem.
And the energy companies are building aeolic parcs in the North Sea. And links to southern Germany. These are in work since years

[mikefortune]

Und wo wäre Frankreich, wenn es in trockenen Sommer keine Alternativen zu Atomkraftwerken gäbe? Solche Beiträge sind dummes Lobbygeschwätz ohne Bezug zur Realität.