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Re:EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend by flohofwoe on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:09AM (#39285866)
Nuclear powerplants exploding have a tendency to make pretty large swaths of land uninhabitable for decades or centuries, in a densely populated country like Germany that's a bit of a problem.
Re:EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend by Gud on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:16AM (#39285901)
Where has this ever happened with reactor types used by Germany?
Re:EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend by Ringz on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:55AM (#39286143)
So according to your logic, it must have happened first to worry about the possibility of a GAU?
Re:EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend by Gud on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:28AM (#39286806)
Not exactly sure what a GAU is.

If an event has never happened, and the risks have been adequately mitigated, no, I don’t see the need to worry.

Re:EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend by flohofwoe on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:41AM (#39286886)
GAU = "Grösster Anzunehmender Unfall" roughly translates to "maximum conceivable accident", almost exclusively used for nuclear accidents (or sarcastically for lesser problems, like accidentally deleting a database without a backup at hand).

The fact that this is a very common German word should tell you something about the complicated relationship of the Germans to nuclear energy ;)

Re:EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend by Ringz on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @06:04PM (#39295547)
That’s simply an oversimplified view of risk, mitigation adequacy, and the dynamic and often unpredictable nature of real-world events.
Re:EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend by Paradigma11 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @08:21AM (#39288226)