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Current wholesale electricity prices in Germany are $194/MWh:

https://www.energylive.cloud/

How much does Germany spend on the military? Cancel it, and spend the money on nuclear power. Otherwise Germany has a significant strategic weakness (gas imports) to Russia, its only realistic enemy.

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Wholesale energy is priced by the marginal cost, gas peaker plants come in at $150 - $200/MWh so not a surprising price to level out on.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

Germany already spends so little on their military that they have been in breach of their NATO treaty obligations for years.

I don't think canceling an already tight military budget in favor of a power source that could be devastating when hit by an airstrike is a good strategy

Russia supplies 55% of Germany's natural gas imports. Cut that off and say goodbye to manufacturing, electricity, heating.

it wouldn't be devastating

>A meltdown or explosion at a nuclear facility could cause a large amount of radioactive material to be released into the environment.

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/HEALTHYENVIRONMENTS/RADIATIONP...

Ideally with passive containment, anything that blows up the container/automatic-cooler, is also going to physically blow up / spread out the rods too?

Big mess, sure, but no meltdown.

Also remember war is really bad no matter what. If someone blow up all the powerplants regardless of sort, a huge portion of people will die simply because the lack of electricity.

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