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Re:Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissi... by externedguy on Thursday August 08, 2024 @05:29AM (#41189592)
If Germany was so worried about accidents, wouldn't they have fights and serious arguments with the neighbors like France that is packed with nuclear fuel, plants, and the French character of seeking endless revolutions?

Germany intentionally did something that they knew will hurt its economy, there should be a very profound reason for taking such a hit. Who would be ok to take such a hit because of a "fear"?

My generalization about the German nations may be really inaccurate here, I just thought they all had a huge influence on each other (which affects lots of previous and future decisions).

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Re:Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissi... by rob74 on Thursday August 08, 2024 @05:38AM (#41189652)
They do - e.g. before its closure, there was a lot of German (and Swiss) opposition to the Fessenheim NPP, located just across the Rhine from Germany (the English Wikipedia article only mentions it briefly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fessenheim_Nuclear_Power_Plant..., but the German one has more details, including a long list of somewhat significant incidents https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Fessenheim#Betri...)
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Re:Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissi... by Moldoteck on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:28AM (#41190318)
they are in fact against france's nuclear and are trying very hard to not include nuclear as a green source to not give it eu funding.

But there are other reasons ofc including lobying from russia and auto industry

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Re:Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissi... by lis on Thursday August 08, 2024 @05:49AM (#41189722)
For a lot of people in Germany it's not about the risk of an accident, but rather the cost of building and decomissioning nuclear reactors.
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