Highly relevant to this is the fact that German electricity is some of the most expensive in the world.
Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
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Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
#92Highly relevant to this is the fact that German electricity is some of the most expensive in the world.
isn't it highly dependent on Russian gas too?
Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
#93All of these should have been shut down (by now). The mistake was not building new ones to replace them.
Why shut them down? Older generation reactors? A lot of other countries are extending the lives of older reactors successfully and with far less cost and delay than a brand new plant. Except China, who is good at building them.
To get political points from the anti nuclear crowd, which is huge in Europe. I think proximity to Chernobyl is probably the reason why that movement has grown so badly out of proportion
Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
#94All of these should have been shut down (by now). The mistake was not building new ones to replace them.
Why? How old were they? Reactors can easily last 60 years.
I believe the very last ones of those shut down early would have been scheduled for shut down by 2020, so in that case about 9 years earlier than their planned lifetime. Some were shut down mere months before the planned date. Their average age in 2020 would have been around 45 years. They were shut down at ~35 instead.
Younger reactors Germany left running until they also reached around 35 years.
Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
#95This is typical CDU conservative talk from Merz. He is on a war path with anything Angela Merkel did because she saw him as politically inexperienced and shunned him. So he had to work for Blackrock.
The CSU (the Bavarian equivalent and permanent coalition partner of the CDU) is also demanding to reactivate nuclear power plants but at the same time is not willing to store any spent nuclear fuel. The CSU is also notoriously anti renewables and does not want new power lines in their "beautiful scenery" to get the renewable power from northern Germany to Bavaria.
Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
#96No Shit.
Economically, diplomatically, strategically, and environmentally probably the dumbest decision they could have made and something they will continue to feel repercussions from for at least another decade.
It’s not as loud as Brexit or Trump but likely equally as damaging to so many causes across the board.
The only silver lining from this monumental fuck up is that since sadly we only learn when consequences occur, they’re finally having to face the music and will hopefully plan for a better future.
Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
#97All of these should have been shut down (by now). The mistake was not building new ones to replace them.
Nuclear is high capex and low opex. From a LCOE perspective, it's ~always bad to shut down nuclear plants early (due to capex being a sunk cost), but it's also usually bad to make new ones (due to high capex) relative to contemporary alternatives.
Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
#98Who would have thought?
Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
#99Who could have predicted
Re: Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake
#100All of these should have been shut down (by now). The mistake was not building new ones to replace them.
Why shut them down? Older generation reactors? A lot of other countries are extending the lives of older reactors successfully and with far less cost and delay than a brand new plant. Except China, who is good at building them.
Why? To appease those with extreme environmentalist views.