Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle

Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by Traubenfuchs on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:15AM (#35579913)

> in the neighbouring Austria, nuclear power is prohibited

Which is funny, because we actually built a pretty much complete nuclear power plant, Zwentendorf. It‘s now a unique museum.

A vote of just 50.47 % ruined our radiant future...

Also we do have one research reactor left right in the city. I was blessed enough to visit it once.

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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by ekianjo on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:40AM (#35580105)

> A vote of just 50.47 % ruined our radiant future...

There really should be a rule that important decisions can't pass with a tiny majority

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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by dragonwriter on Saturday April 15, 2023 @03:01PM (#35583530)

> There really should be a rule that important decisions can’t pass with a tiny majority

There are at least two major problems with such a rule:

(1) On an important question, “yes” and “no” are both important decisions.

(2) Who decides what is “important”?

You can make a rule that is closer to “you can’t make specific kinds of deviations from the status quo without a supermajority vote”, but that’s…very different from “important decisions”.

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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by TheLoafOfBread on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:01AM (#35580256)

Now you are buying nuclear power from Czechia.

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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by HyperSane on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:56PM (#35583491)

The US also built at least one nuclear reactor and never used it.

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