Sure but this is Germany, a financial and manufacturing powerhouse in the world. If they decided they wanted these plants to keep running I can't imagine they would have any trouble at all doing so.
> Indeed, far from being an indictment of Stasi infiltration of the Greens, Gieseke and Bahr's study is a portrait of a largely failed attempt by the Communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) to co-opt the nascent left-wing party on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
How did a few Stasi cooperators the 1980s Green Party translate into experts recommending Germany's nuclear power plants be shut down in the late 2010s?
https://legacy-assets.eenews.net/open_files/assets/2017/07/0...
https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-funding-environmental-g...
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-funding-green-groups-discredi...
https://www.transparency.org/en/press/germany-state-governme...
https://www.eenews.net/articles/devin-nunes-claims-russia-is...
in comparison how Russia deals with this internally https://www.nirs.org/russia-cracks-down-on-anti-nuclear-move...
"Seemingly" doesn't really do it for me, especially not when there is a concerted, well financed effort to pull the wool over your eyes.
So sure, in a year or two we can get these reactors back online. In 10 or 15 years we can even get new ones. But these time scales don't help in the next winter and on those time scales we can come up with solutions that are even better and not at risk at making eating shrooms you find in the forest killing you..
Recently a former conservative minister got an award for fighting against wind power which is named after a former key figure of the early green movement in Germany, wo later dropped out to figth against wind turbines.
Bavaria is holding back the construction of a crucial north-south connection for electricity, which would bring the power from the wind-rich north to them. But they don't want the power lines messing up their landscape.
Everyone wants electricity, nobody wants to see the infrastructure that makes it.
People are meshugge.
If they would be easy to run longer, I would be all for it. But big money is better spent into reducing the gas dependency overall.
The decision to keep these 3 plants running or not is not about the waste, but about the fact that they were planned to shut down for years now, and there is some real hurdles to reversing that now. The impact of keeping them on is also rather small. The effort and money is more effectively spent elsewhere.