Dutch Ask If German Nuclear Plants May Stay Open Amid Gas Crisis

Likely soon the Germans will ask the Dutch to reopen the Groningen gas fields, which were being shutdown due to the earthquakes and widespread damage to buildings they caused.

FWIW, the operator for a couple of the still-running plants told the local newspaper that preparations to shut down were too far advanced to abort. They'd need to order parts in order to continue staying open, and the lead times on many parts were long, and time was already too short. The wording implied that this was one reason rather than the reason.

That was a few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine.

The fuel is one part of it, but there are others. The safety checks have to be done, because the powerplants are old, some are as old as tschernobyl