Re:Coal plants emit more radioactive waste than nuclear plan...
by rsynnott on Friday June 02, 2017 @08:49AM
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Do you have a link to an article on this? My impression was that Germany was trying to move away from base load as a concept entirely, using unreliable renewables plus highly responsive fossil plants instead.
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Re:Coal plants emit more radioactive waste than nuclear plan...
by luca_ing on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:17AM
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Here's the link: http://www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/de/untersuchungen/u140.html
It being a German government publication it's in German unfortunately.
As far as I can tell from skimming it your impression is correct.
So I apparently misremembered the article, and my claim about base load a few posts above may be incorrect after all. Sorry, rsynnott.
Re:Coal plants emit more radioactive waste than nuclear plan...
by 0xfeba on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:07AM
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They moved away from Nuclear. However, now they import power from France, etc. Which has Nuclear and fossil fuel plants.
Re:Coal plants emit more radioactive waste than nuclear plan...
by luca_ing on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:25AM
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In 2016, Germany was a net exporter of electrical energy:
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag...
However you're right that Germany was a net importer from (among others) France: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/180862/umfrag...
Which is surprising as I remember reading that France has tremendous difficulties satisfying their electricity demand, especially in winter (lots of electric heating apparently).