Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online

Re:Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online by patall on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:09AM (#30578486)

It is very simple. The shut down of those nuclear power plants has been planned to the day for about 10 years. That includes maintanance, how much fuel is needed, which people are going to keep their job, how many new people are hired and trained, who retires early. There is almost no chance to change that trajectory with only 10 months to go. And were not even talking about the regulatory planning that would be needed. The german nuclear power plants will be shut down on december 31 this year. Nothing, short of a nuclear war, is going to change that.

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Re:Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online by 323 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:19AM (#30578576)

So Germany would rather inflict itself tens of billions of euros of economical damage, instead of figuring out how to stop a planned process?

Has it got that inflexible? That's a scary thought.

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Re:Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online by abletonlive on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:27AM (#30578643)

I really don't understand why everybody is making this out to be some kind of impossible goal for Germany to reverse course.

We are truly doomed as civilizations if we don't know how to adapt and change to current circumstances.

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Re:Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online by patall on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:39AM (#30578736)

Well, we are also doomed if we only consider a single alternative and present it as the only possible solution. But that is happening in this very thread. So yeah, we are probably doomed :)

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Re:Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online by hoechst on Sunday March 06, 2022 @12:05PM (#30578966)

Where do you get "tens of billions of euros of economical damage" and "economic Armageddon in Germany" from? are you a russian troll bot?

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Re:Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online by patall on Sunday March 06, 2022 @03:01PM (#30580684)

323 is just questioning why Germany doesn't reverse a seemingly obvious miscalculation. No need to assume a troll from that. And 10 billion euros are 125 € per German inhabitant, the pre-war price hike has caused multiple times that much 'damage'.

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Re:Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online by hoechst on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:35AM (#30585816)

if you use excessive language ("economic armageddon") and figures ("10 billion euros") like this and don't provide sources, i assume trolling.

i see he posted the bloomberg article now. imo, reading "Supply cut would rip through Germany’s industry within weeks" and interpreting that as "if Russia cuts of the gas, there will be economic Armageddon in Germany" is pretty extreme, but i guess people interpret stuff differently.. that's fine, just let me form my own opinion about your statement by citing a source.

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Re:Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online by 323 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @02:59PM (#30580665)

Yes, I'm quoting the Bloomberg russian bot:

> Supply cut would rip through Germany’s industry within weeks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-05/germany-f...

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