Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants
by ativzzz on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:37PM
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It 100% is politics. For example in the US, our government is incapable of doing anything on a time scale of longer than 4-8 years because the party in power shifts and undoes everything the other party did during that time. Nuclear power is inherently authoritarian because it works best under unchanging centralized governments that can plan out a 30 year program without interference from other parties.
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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants
by pydry on Friday December 31, 2021 @03:23PM
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It's just ridiculously capital intensive. If the government throws money at it it happens.
Some of the costs of a nuclear weapons program can be shared. This is probably partly why France invested heavily in it and why countries keen on it coincidentall almos always have nuclear arsenals. It's unlikely it's because they're secretly authoritarian.