> Germany's shutting those down because of the Fukushima disaster.
No, they're not. The shutdown decision was made (and put into binding law!) almost ten years before Fukushima.
No, they're not. The shutdown decision was made (and put into binding law!) almost ten years before Fukushima.
Mine is that the decision to stop was taken by a government with a parliamentary majority in general, but narrow popular backing in this specific case. So the law at risk of revision if the right/wrong parties won an election. Some politicians thought revising it might be a good campaign issue.
The reacter lifetimes were extended after such an election, and I think it was a first step. If that had gone well, one of the parties in the coalition would've proposed revising the law before the next election. But it did not go well: "Fukushima ändert alles", said Merkel, and I think she was right. From that point on, the law aligned well with a broad majority of voters. Noone proposed a revision as a campaign issue after that point.