• macniel@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Germany can buy uranium like every other country.

    Or… OR, we invest those running costs in the infrastructure (storage and lines) to harvest unbound energy via photovoltaic solar arrays, tide power and wind farms.

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      2 months ago

      @DmMacniel @SaveTheTuaHawk
      Sure. But that is deflecting the argument. Purchase of Uranium is no more expensive for Germany than it is for France.
      By decommissioning nuclear, Germany LOST the investment it had already made & then had to invest AGAIN to build alternatives (+to fossil fuel, its immediate fall-back), after public panic over “Fukushima”. (1 death directly attributed to date – Most people still don’t know the name of the thing that actually killed 20k people.)
      Yes, 👍 Renewables!

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        2 months ago

        @DmMacniel @SaveTheTuaHawk
        France did not panic (they were 71% nuclear-powered already so immediate decommissioning would have been virtually impossible), but they are managing a transition to renewables anyway as nuclear is gradually phased out.