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I assume you are talking about fission. We (Germany) somewhat famously don't have nuclear power anymore and I think that is a good thing. IMO the risks overweigh the benefits, and I don't only mean the risk of a nuclear power plant blowing up. Aside from that there are two mayor downsides.
First they are fucking expensive to build at least any recent projects I have heard of are billions over cost.
Second is the waste problem which specifically is a hot topic in germany, there just doesn't seem to be a good way to get rid of it. I have read some comments saying that there are ways to deplete them even more but never heard of such a system being actually used.
A minor point for me is also that I think, that less centralised infrastructure using wind and solar energy is a better way to go.
Some proponents (especially online) love to talk about "small" reactors, but I've never heard of one actually being in use, at most there were tests of it is actually feasible (as far as I know at least, and I am not an expert)
Yea it was so clever of you guys to ditch nuclear in favor of... gas and coal? Great job protecting the environment there. Definitely not a dumbass decision made due to fear mongering.
No we didn't. At least in all charts I could find (here for example) the usage of coal and gas did not change in the worst case and went down in the last few years because renewables increased
This graph is so painful to look at, if Germany kept a baseline of nuclear, you could have completely phase out coal entirely by now.
Or if the conservatives didn't kill our solar industry in the eraly 2010s we could have had a lot more renewables
How does Germany handle the green house gas waste produced by coal power plants?
Badly and those aren't even the only problem with coal power just skim through this article about the Hambscher Forst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_Forest I am not saying that nuclear is the worst way to generate power, but if germany would have wanted to continue using it, the time would have been 20-30 years ago. The last exosting plants, which were shut down a few years ago, weren't up to the task anymore, especially when looming at the problem france's reactors have with the heat every year
See that big space up there with the clouds? Let's just put it there.
I wonder how many of those that died in France during this heat wave think about that idea.