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Nuclear is very cheap when you have an available power plant like Germany has... but instead decides to shut it down because that's not politically acceptable to use them

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I think public opinion has shifted actually, but greens are still very ideologically opposed and a member of the coalition government.

The plants in Germany would have been due for expensive maintenance and they are old. (Maybe not EOL old but old)

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