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I agree that keeping nuclear would have been the right choice, but it is also easy to see why it was politically impossible.

After years of public debate and negotiations nuclear was accepted as a bridging technology just a couple of months before Fukushima happened. Fresh in the publics mind on already extremely shaky ground Fukushima sealed the fate for the existing nuclear plants.

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I totally agree but the only tangible result is that "extreme green parties" are making the planet more miserable.

We have on the other hand gotten new built renewables costing less than the marginal cost of traditional fossil plants. Germany's start may have been slower, but who is fastest in the end? The turtle enjoying exponential development or the hare living on past achievments?

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