Germany is on course to shut down its three remaining nuclear power plants on Saturday.

[Mindful]

The country began phasing out nuclear power more than 20 years ago - but plans were escalated following Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

Subsequent anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany led then chancellor Angela Merkel to press ahead with plans to shut down all of Germany's remaining nuclear power by 2022.

Sixteen reactors have been closed since 2003.

However, Germany was forced to delay the closure of three remaining plants after Russia cut off European gas supplies amid its war in Ukraine, sparking fears of a winter fuel crisis.

An amended deadline of 15 April 2023 will see the facilities in Emsland, in the northern state of Lower Saxony, and the Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim reactors close this week.

It comes as many other countries - including the UK - are turning to nuclear power to provide greener energy, as it generates electricity without the climate-heating emissions of burning fossil fuels.

Germany closing its nuclear power plants for good this week

Germany was forced to delay the closure of the three remaining plants after Russia's invasion of Ukraine - but plans are now set to go ahead.

news.sky.com

 

[Oddball]

They'll be down to horses and candles inside a decade.

 

[jwoodie]

The country began phasing out nuclear power more than 20 years ago - but plans were escalated following Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

Subsequent anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany led then chancellor Angela Merkel to press ahead with plans to shut down all of Germany's remaining nuclear power by 2022.

Sixteen reactors have been closed since 2003.

However, Germany was forced to delay the closure of three remaining plants after Russia cut off European gas supplies amid its war in Ukraine, sparking fears of a winter fuel crisis.

An amended deadline of 15 April 2023 will see the facilities in Emsland, in the northern state of Lower Saxony, and the Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim reactors close this week.

It comes as many other countries - including the UK - are turning to nuclear power to provide greener energy, as it generates electricity without the climate-heating emissions of burning fossil fuels.

Germany closing its nuclear power plants for good this week

Germany was forced to delay the closure of the three remaining plants after Russia's invasion of Ukraine - but plans are now set to go ahead.

news.sky.com

The Germans are still shell-shocked from WW2.

 

[martybegan]

They'll be down to horses and candles inside a decade.

Germany is about to get the end goal of the AGW agenda, good and hard.

The elites have decided the proles aren't worthy of first world comforts like a reliable energy grid.

Their sacrifices to the altar of Gaia will be noted, and celebrated by the elites with a tip of the champagne glass at their air conditioned social clubs.

 

[Mindful]

The Germans are still shell-shocked from WW2.

No.
Chernobyl.

That’s what started all the mass hysteria.


You should have seen them during Mad Cow Disease.

 

[jwoodie]

No.
Chernobyl.

That’s what started all the mass hysteria.

German mass hysteria started well before Chernobyl. But the U.S. is catching up with them.

 

[MarathonMike]

Fukushima was built in a tsunami zone and Chernobyl was built like a tinker toy house. Those two failures should not have influenced the future of nuclear energy at all. But people are emotional and irrational. And leadership is weak.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Their standard of living will suffer accordingly and they will push intelligent citizens out of the country as Canada does (via different forms and degrees of abuses). Other nations will reap the reward.

 

[DGS49]

The Greens have an insane amount of influence in Germany. I thought that Merkel caved in too easily to their demands after Fukushima, but this suicidal, stupid campaign continues unabated.

Nuclear power is by far the safest energy source on the planet, beating both hydro and solar in the process. The U.S. has never even had an ILLNESS attributable to exposure to nuclear radiation in the U.S. commercial nuclear power industry, much less a death. Same goes for our nuclear Navy.

Indeed, even with the disaster of Fukushima, not a single death was attributed to nuclear radiation among plant workers, cleanup workers, or the general public. One cleanup worker had a heart attack, unrelated to nuclear radiation. Further, the "problem" of storage of long-term spent fuel is easily solvable, either by re-processing or storing in underground salt deposits.

And the deaths in the general public attributable to Chernobyl are also grossly overblown in the public's perception. There were some, but limited to a tiny demographic. Most of the deaths were unborn children, killed by their mothers, who feared birth defects. (No birth defects were attributed to that explosion).

That the Germans, probably the most intelligent, industrious population on the planet, are taken in by this irrational hysteria doesn't say much for the human race.

If Trump were President, he would offer to store the spent fuel at WIPP (look it up), try to induce the Germans to get their collective head our of their ass.

This is very disturbing.

 

[Mindful]

The Greens have an insane amount of influence in Germany. I thought that Merkel caved in too easily to their demands after Fukushima, but this suicidal, stupid campaign continues unabated.

Nuclear power is by far the safest energy source on the planet, beating both hydro and solar in the process. The U.S. has never even had an ILLNESS attributable to exposure to nuclear radiation in the U.S. commercial nuclear power industry, much less a death. Same goes for our nuclear Navy.

Indeed, even with the disaster of Fukushima, not a single death was attributed to nuclear radiation among plant workers, cleanup workers, or the general public. One cleanup worker had a heart attack, unrelated to nuclear radiation. Further, the "problem" of storage of long-term spent fuel is easily solvable, either by re-processing or storing in underground salt deposits.

And the deaths in the general public attributable to Chernobyl are also grossly overblown in the public's perception. There were some, but limited to a tiny demographic. Most of the deaths were unborn children, killed by their mothers, who feared birth defects. (No birth defects were attributed to that explosion).

That the Germans, probably the most intelligent, industrious population on the planet, are taken in by this irrational hysteria doesn't say much for the human race.

If Trump were President, he would offer to store the spent fuel at WIPP (look it up), try to induce the Germans to get their collective head our of their ass.

This is very disturbing.

The Greens.

 

[JohnDB]

Mining, processing and purifying the Uranium for nuclear reactor fuel is anything but a clean process. Involving millions of gallons of boric acid to be pumped into the ground or mined in open pit mines (next to vanadium deposits used in steel) produces Radon Gas. All the miners involved with Uranium mining tend to develop lung cancer and other cancers.

Then both the processing/purifying site AND the reactor site are what is known as a "brown site" where no industry or residential housing can exist.
This waste stays "hot" for literally thousands of years.

And reactors have a lifespan....they don't stay functional forever. You can only absorb so many rads before you have a lifetime limit. Meaning that you will get cancer at some pount...cancer is not a pleasant disease. And when it comes from radiation there generally is no cure.

 

[jackflash]

The country began phasing out nuclear power more than 20 years ago - but plans were escalated following Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

Subsequent anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany led then chancellor Angela Merkel to press ahead with plans to shut down all of Germany's remaining nuclear power by 2022.

Sixteen reactors have been closed since 2003.

However, Germany was forced to delay the closure of three remaining plants after Russia cut off European gas supplies amid its war in Ukraine, sparking fears of a winter fuel crisis.

An amended deadline of 15 April 2023 will see the facilities in Emsland, in the northern state of Lower Saxony, and the Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim reactors close this week.

It comes as many other countries - including the UK - are turning to nuclear power to provide greener energy, as it generates electricity without the climate-heating emissions of burning fossil fuels.

Germany closing its nuclear power plants for good this week

Germany was forced to delay the closure of the three remaining plants after Russia's invasion of Ukraine - but plans are now set to go ahead.

news.sky.com

As brownouts turn to blackouts Germany will revert to its backup energy supply, candles & heavy insulated winter clothing.

 

[JohnDB]

As brownouts turn to blackouts Germany will revert to its backup energy supply, candles & heavy insulated winter clothing.

Beer, kirschwasser, Reisling and schnapps.

But most of Germany's coal plants can be refitted to burn natural gas and propane. Not even that much to do to retrofit them.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

These nutjobs better keep praying for warm Winters.

 

[JohnDB]

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

Translated...

Short version:

Suckers. This is what "Green Energy" is all about. Huge price increases which have absolutely no benefit towards slaying the climate boogieman. But you should feel great about saving the planet, while you starve your family of a great standard of living, as we all agreed to, in solidarity.

Long version:

Germany's largest energy supplier Eon has announced a drastic increase in electricity prices in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The background is the increased procurement costs in the energy crisis.

On June 1, 2023, electricity customers in NRW can expect an expensive surprise: the energy company Eon will significantly increase the basic price for the electricity supply. This was stated by Germany's largest energy supplier on Thursday to the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. The background is the increased procurement costs for electricity during the energy crisis.

"Of course, last year we had to secure future energy volumes for our customers on the wholesale markets at high prices," Eon explained to the WAZ. It is therefore "unavoidable" that this will also be reflected in the end customer prices with a time lag. Eon had already announced an electricity price increase in March and pointed out that it had only passed on around 30 percent of the price increases. According to Eon boss Leonhard Birnbaum, this "cannot be sustained forever".
Specifically, the energy price should rise from around 30.85 cents to 49.44 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). At the same time, this increase of around 60 percent will be dampened by a reduction in the basic price: this is expected to fall from around 190 to 150 euros per year. This results in a price increase of 45 percent. Affected are customers who consume up to 15,000 kilowatt hours per year. In addition, the electricity price brake will be taken into account in the monthly deductions from March.

Eon is the basic supplier in the Ruhr area. The company could not specify how many customers were affected by the increase. Eon has a total of 14 million customers in Germany. The comparison portal Verivox has calculated that the increase is already expensive for a three-person household: from June it pays 2125 euros for an annual consumption of 4,000 kilowatt hours of electricity.

According to the Rheinische Post, 98 other basic suppliers have increased their prices or announced an increase. The cartel office is therefore planning investigations against the providers. The consumer center NRW advises to change.

The news comes at a remarkable time with the shutdown of the last German nuclear power plants. Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckhardt (Greens) announced a few days ago that electricity prices would fall after the nuclear phase-out. Apparently it will take a little longer until this point.

 

[Mindful]

This weekend, the plug was pulled on Germany’s last three nuclear reactors. Environmentalists have hailed this as the culmination of a 50-year struggle. Indeed, for decades, Germany’s anti-nuclear movement had enjoyed mass support. But now that the activists have won, regret is starting to set in. The bleak reality of the energy crisis has led many Germans to rethink. It has become all too clear that the phasing out of nuclear power can only make matters worse.

A culture of fear has driven Germany’s anti-nuclear movement since its inception in the mid-1970s. In its early days, it was a radical opposition movement, largely at the fringes of society. Its demonstrations were often met with massive police force. At one demo in 1986, in the German village of Wackersdorf, several protesters, and one police officer, were killed.

The public mood started to change after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, also in 1986. But the German government continued to back nuclear power in the years following the accident. Then chancellor Helmut Kohl argued that a highly industrialised country like Germany couldn’t survive without it.

In many ways, nuclear power was a German success story. German nuclear plants, built by Siemens, were considered among the safest and most efficient in the world.

Germany’s nuclear lunacy

Ordinary Germans will pay a heavy price for their elites’ green fear-mongering.

www.spiked-online.com

 

[krichton]

Nuclear accounts for 6% of Germany's power generation. It's a pretty easy decision for them. They can buy energy from their neighbors if they need to and supplement the missing 6% with new renewable energy projects in the works, that won't take long to go online.

 

[luiza]

hey will push intelligent citizens out of the country as Canada does (via different forms and degrees of abuses).

Sources or links to show that Canadians are ever anything but boring -- in between head aches and bouts of depression .

I have never heard of anybody claiming to have found an intelligent Canadian , other than Jordan Petersen who is probably full of Team GB blood .

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

Nuclear accounts for 6% of Germany's power generation. It's a pretty easy decision for them. They can buy energy from their neighbors if they need to and supplement the missing 6% with new renewable energy projects in the works, that won't take long to go online.

It was nearly 30% in 2006. 12% in 2021, 6% in 2022, and 0% now.

[Link]

Each nuke is the equivalent annual generation as about 800 giant 5MW wind turbines.

And when the wind isn't blowing, they'll be missing the nukes. Used to be 17 of them.