[mdbug]

> How did Germany evolve to be so anti-nuclear? Given the alternatives nuclear seems the way to go.

Nuclear power is currently by far the most expensive way to generate electricity. And this despite the fact that the insurance sum for the power plants is capped and the remaining risk is assumed by the state and the money that was invested for final waste storage will predictably not be sufficient either. Our early attempts for final storage since the 60s have failed and since 2013 we have been planning how to recover hundreds of thousands of barrels from a salt mine from which radioactively contaminated brine is leaking. And we have yet to find a suitable repository where long-term safety can be guaranteed.

[TheLoafOfBread]

We also does not have sustainable energy storage and that's the reason for burning more coal, while spraying everyone with radioactive ash from coal in the process. I find it so funny when you are worried about waste from nuclear power plants, while there are literal tons of uranium every year being exhaled into the atmosphere and stored on ash heaps under the open air.