Germany commits €100B to defense spending

Re:Germany commits €100B to defense spending by mschuster91 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:07AM (#30487584)

That's outright impossible. Not just on the political level - no one aside from the fascist party wants nuclear energy. The closed-down reactors are being torn down as we speak, it is impossible to put them back together. For those still running, we do not have the capacity to make new fuel rods for and to maintain the reactors themselves, they are at the end of their designed life time. And new projects are completely out of the question - the French and Finnish projects are many years and many billions over budget.

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Re:Germany commits €100B to defense spending by misja111 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:43AM (#30487866)

Meanwhile, the Netherlands are moving away from gas and are planning to build new nuclear reactors. Belgium has postponed the planned closure of their nuclear plants. France has decided to build new nuclear reactors.

It doesn't seem to be so impossible as you think.

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Re:Germany commits €100B to defense spending by _ph_ on Sunday February 27, 2022 @08:00AM (#30487980)

France isn't building enough new reactors to replace all the aging ones - at best this can delay the exit from nuclear power. Whether Netherlands is going to see through building new reactors has to be seen.

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Re:Germany commits €100B to defense spending by Pigalowda on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:43AM (#30487865)

That’s kind of a brittle take. Germany has suffered an embarrassment and is back peddling over the course of only a few days.

- From helmets to actual military aid to Ukraine.

- large increase in military expenditure instead of woeful inadequacy.

- reversal of Swift decision.

Why wouldn’t there be a change in energy policy if Russia continues its war in Ukraine? This huge reliance on Russian gas has Europe, and especially Germany, in this strange conflict of interest.

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Re:Germany commits €100B to defense spending by mschuster91 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @08:17AM (#30488124)

Building out nuclear plans takes years, many billions of euros, and considerable protest from wherever you install them. Installing wind and solar power is cheap and fast, in comparison.

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Re:Germany commits €100B to defense spending by throwaway0a5e on Sunday February 27, 2022 @08:50AM (#30488394)

It takes years because people like you in aggregate demand that it do so. Submitting plans, evaluations of those plans, comment periods, etc. etc. etc. only move so fast because that's how the process is set up. The process is set up to delay and deny because that's where the political winds blew at the time the process was created.

If political winds change to support nuclear then such processes would evaporate into something far more streamlined and efficient because they simply don't make any sense in the context of "we want to do this nuclear thing and we want to do it ASAP".

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Re:Germany commits €100B to defense spending by ClumsyPilot on Sunday February 27, 2022 @08:31AM (#30488231)

> That's outright impossible

Lets imagine that the gas pipeline from Russia explodes due to war or Putin shuts it off. Is it still 'impossible', as in we'd rather freeze and have blackouts?

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Re:Germany commits €100B to defense spending by Jon_Lowtek on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:06AM (#30489070)

> "the gas pipeline"

which one? https://www.gie.eu/publications/maps/gie-lng-map/

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