I live in Hamburg, Germany.
the reactor near Hamburg was either broken or not running for some other reasons.
Also after 40 years of nuclear plants we still have not a good answer to the waste it produces.
the reactor near Hamburg was either broken or not running for some other reasons.
Also after 40 years of nuclear plants we still have not a good answer to the waste it produces.
That waste argument is repeated over and over again and just not relevant. Even if the waste problem is as massive as politics tries to claim (it isn't), that's not relevant for keeping the reactors running or even building new ones.
The absolute volume of waste produced is so low that keeping on relying on fission isn't changing the already existing waste problem in any meaningful way especially when considering breeding type reactors that can recycle existing "waste".
The argument is nothing but anti-fission propaganda and I wish it would stop being brought up as the first line of defense all the time.
These are pretty old reactors from the 80s or earlier.
Calling it propaganda tells me just one thing: its a waste of time discussing this more.
I always thought the security/proliferation arguments against nuclear power were the most convincing, but in germany's case I think the alternative has been worse on this front too.
World best solar panels but yeah for some reason they solid it to other countries or companies.
So no fossil was not the only way of going forward and it still isn't
Germany's conservative government then just ignored the German's companies cries for help, costing 200_000 jobs. Why? Well that were moslty voters for the greens, so their jobs weren't of interest.