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Nuclear power plants can't be used for residential heating, residential cooking, chemistry, and industrial processes like making glass for solar panels.

At least not without changing the infrastructure for that completely. Which is not going to happen overnight. And even then it can't replace chemistry.

So, no, Germany couldn't have. No matter how many Internet armchair commenters repeat this.

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Nuclear power for residential and commercial real estate heating is pretty simple if it were accepted. Main issue is distance between production and consumption and then delta of heat. But later could be solved with heat pumps.

Up to 30km is fine, there are usually enough towns and villages within that radius.

> At least not without changing the infrastructure for that completely

Was replacing that infrastructure considered when plans were made to shutdown nuclear a decade ago? At some point you have to show you're better than "armchair commenters" and actually do what needs to be done.

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