I’m not sure that oil companies are behind the various near and actual catastrophes of nuclear power plants. At least that’s what convinced me that it’s not worth the risk.

Mate, don’t ask me, ask those NIMBYs. For what it’s worth if the German state wants to rent the cellar below my flat I am fine with it.

Yes, nuclear reactors can’t do load balancing. However they can neither meet basic demand when they have to be stopped because of a lack of coolant or for repairs.

They are. Don’t let those fossil lobbyist tell you otherwise.

Yeah, that’s why it is being phased out, duh?

It’s a back and forth, yes. Though quite often the cause for France needing an urgent power injection is issues with their nuclear powerplants. With ever hotter and drier summers leaving powerplants with little to no water as coolant and the aging buildings requiring more and more maintenance.

I can’t find the article right now but sometime late last year Germany had its yearly “Dunkelflaute” scare (Dunkelflaute refers to a time when neither sun is shining nor wind blowing for renewables) and it turned out during this exact timeframe we even exported to France because of troubles with their reactors.

And guess what? That time is now. It’s just politics holding us back. The technology is here.

Nuclear is for the people who want to take the risk and don’t care about their neighbours they contaminate as well in case of a catastrophe.

Our coal usage is at an all time low and continues to decline. In fact the decline in recent years is greater than the contribution of nuclear power has ever had to our energy mix (roughly 2% per year).

There is a difference between operating a technology on a comercial scale and having the capabilities to build on it. The university I went to had a reactor in one of it’s cellars. Granted, tiny compared to a comercial plant but enough to do research with and train people on.

The short term answer is to buy low CO2 power from France

The same France that constantly buys electricity from Germany because of constant issues with their nuclear powerplants?

Except usage of coal has been going down steadily and is at an all time low. The amount we use coal less is bigger than the amount of electricity nuclear has ever contributed to the German electricity mix.

Except we can’t handle the waste. At least not in Germany where we move it between temporary storage locations until we find a permanent one soon™️ and are shocked that due to improper storage the containers are rusting.

Every time I drive: “Why can’t my car be more quiet?”

Unlike what France wants us to think, nuclear power is not green. Unless you count that warm and fuzzy green glow.

Small demonstration of Iranians next to the Israeli embassy in Brussels, demanding the return of the Shah

This guy? I don’t know the man, but anyone calling themselves “rightful king” of anything has to start way at the bottom of the ladder of my respect.