Yaaawn.. this doomsday propaganda is really getting old, and lets meet in 6 month again and lets see how much impact and necessity those 3 plants had at all on heating here..
Wait, your are likely not from Germany nor even Europe and state "Germany was facing a cold winter" like fact based on what please?
Source: I'm German and live in California now. Not a surprise to me that homes here don't have any heating at all, unthinkable in Germany.
Old people would literally die.
I have memories of when our heating would break down in some winters, living in an old building with bad insulation (which is very common). You could wear a thick jacket inside and a thick blanket but your hands are freezing so much you can't even type on a keyboard.
Germany is going to need the little gas it has for heating and its industry. It's going to need all the gas it can save by using Nuclear for electricity (instead of gas) cold winter or not.