Why is it a mistake or dishonest? That is the reality: Germany already powered many coal plants back up to replace gas and nuclear. Now it will take even longer to get rid of coal.
Same. Yet there are always demonstrations against nuclear waste sites. Or windmils .. or geothermic.
Current estimate for a decision on where to put a German nuclear waste site is the year.. 2046. Or 2068. Does not include building it. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/suche-nach-ato...
Well 40 years :D But that includes building it.
> The site was selected after a long process, which started in 1983 with a screening of the whole Finnish territory. > The facility is expected to be operational in 2023.
I bet there where not many demonstrations in Finland.
It will take Germany 40 years just to find a site. And then the demonstrations start.
Also doesn't help that most recent German chancellors form Schroeder to Merkel were in bed with the Kremlin for whom nuclear was a threat to their gas business so spreading anti nuclear propaganda through the media to the gullible German public was a necessary move.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Datteln#/media/Datei...
Coal gave us such nice installations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron_in_Bottrop
Pretty shiny, isn't it?
We had a nuclear storage site picked out long ago. Then it turned out it wasn't suitable. That's at least as much bad luck as "lack of foresight" or anything else. Finland didn't have that problem. If their storage site turned out to be unsuitable after decades of preparation, maybe they wouldn't continue with nuclear power either.
Last: You accuse others of propaganda but use a phrase like "in bed with the Kremlin" and spout conspiracy theories. You don't understand German politics. Mistakes were made. Presuming malice is convenient and lazy.
Exactly, which why nuclear is not the best option for Germany.
Yes, the plan was to get rid of coal sooner, the Ukraine war made that harder. Actually some more lignite coal got burned last year in order to compensate. But we're going to get rid of those coal plants a lot sooner than if we were to build a couple new nuclear power plants which would commit us to a few more decades of that technology and all the associated problems.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/steinkohlek...
With 6 nuclear power plants that could be a lot less
People like you dishonestly want to fool people into believing each terawatt hour not generated by nuclear power is compensated by one terawatt hour generated from coal. Because it's lazy and convenient and some people are stupid enough to believe it.