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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by rossdavidh on Monday October 17, 2022 @03:39PM (#33238522)
Well, I definitely agree with the decision, but at one point there were some valid things to consider:

1) they had been not doing normal routine maintenance that wasn't going to be needed if they were shutting down, and figuring out what all needs to be done to change gears does take some time (and careful thought)

2) they were at one time buying their fuel for nuclear plants from Russia

Now I believe both of these points have been addressed, and I'm glad of it, but it was not totally unreasonable to raise them and not immediately change course.

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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by felixfbecker on Monday October 17, 2022 @04:26PM (#33239095)
The current plan I believe is to only run them until they run out of their current fuel. No new fuel was a "hard line" drawn by the green party to agree to extending at all.
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