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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by goodpoint on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:41PM (#28856589)
> Germany already hosts nuclear weapons courtesy of the US, so where's the proliferation risk?

Proliferation is not a binary 1 or 0.

> For the other points I'd say that I'd rather build solar to replace coal plants first before replacing nuclear plants.

That's a false dichotomy.

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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online by armada651 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:19PM (#28857861)
> Proliferation is not a binary 1 or 0.

I think climate change poses a bigger existential risk than the nuclear proliferation risk from Germany continuing the nuclear energy production they're already doing.

> That's a false dichotomy.

Sure we can do both, but the reality is we're not doing both. The last time Germany closed its nuclear plants they were replaced by coal plants.

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