Germany should build as many nuclear plants as possible, Fatih Birol proclaims.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s admission that Germany’s nuclear phase-out was a “serious strategic mistake” has won an emphatic endorsement from Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency. In an interview with Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, of which POLITICO is part, Birol said he was “very pleased” to hear Merz’s words. To him, the chancellor’s self-critique is a signal that German energy policy may be heading in “a safer and more sensible direction.”
They are decommissioned, it’s done, over, out, never going to happen again.
Every modern build project is over time and massively over budget. No company is going to build a reactor without truckloads of government subsidies and guaranteed prices for electricity, making the whole “cheap and green energy” argument irrelevant. We have better options now. It’s just another attempt to derail the push for renewables.
Any discussion about restarting the decommissioned German reactors is completely removed from reality. It’s not happening. The politicians who keep trotting out this old saw are either completely clueless or simply lying.
Söder or any of his ministries still haven’t been able to name one of those experts who supposedly claim that putting the decommissioned power plants back into operation is feasible.
Clueless lying politician? Good heavens! Surely you’re not serious!
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Fossil lobbyist talks to fossil lobbyist paper about the words of
a fossilthe chancellor who looking at his policies has no idea about much of anything.Maybe in hindsight it would have been better to have kept the nuclear power running, phasing out coal first and limit our CO2 emissions. (Who am I kidding, we would still emit the same amount of CO2, because we would have phased out coal already and Germany is only 2% of the problem…) But maybe we avoided fallout in central Europe and noone will know, which version of the past we decided against.
