JoNova » German Chancellor admits shutting nuclear plants was a “serious strategic mistake”

Phillippsburg Nuclear Power Plant by Lothar Neumann, Gernsbach [1]

By Jo Nova

How fast was this backflip? How big was this mistake…

Germany shut down its last three reactors in April 2023, but three years later, they’ve realized it was a terrible mistake and want to rebuild them or put small modular reactors “likely on the same sites”.

After 66 years of operating nuclear power without any major accidents, the irony was that Germany shut down its nuclear industry mostly because other countries had accidents. But now they admit they need more electricity.

This would be one of the biggest backdowns in the fake renewables “transition”. Germany is the third largest economy in the world, and Chancellor Merz said this openly at a business conference a few days ago, but the mass media have said nothing.

The media groups that have reported it are niche outlets with names like Deseret News, TVPWorld, and American Thinker.

Translations from the video below:

Chancellor Merz “It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy. We are now undertaking the most expensive energy transition in the entire world. I know of no other country that makes things so difficult for its own industry.”

“To have acceptable market prices for energy production again, we would have to permanently subsidise energy prices from the federal budget,” Merz said, adding: “We can’t do this in the long run.”

“If you are going to do it, you should at least have left the last remaining nuclear power plant in Germany on the grid three years ago, so that you at least have the electricity generation capacity that we had up until then,” he said.

Abdulvehab Ejup reports on TRT World — the Turkish Public Broadcaster.

Germany once had 19 nuclear power plants, which provided more than a quarter of its electricity, but now they are bleeding industrial power, losing solar, wind power, EVs and now AI before it has barely started:

Germany, meanwhile, is watching the digital economy and the jobs that come with it flow to nations with cheaper, more reliable electricity. And Berlin’s solution seems to be if you can’t beat them, join them. Merz has dropped German opposition to nuclear energy in EU law, opening the door for German companies to invest in French small modular reactor projects.

Two years ago a study showed that if Germany just kept nuclear power, it could have saved $600b and cut emissions by 73%. If the Greens cared about emissions they would have been begging Germany to keep nuclear power. But it was never about “the science” was it?

Trump was right in 2018 when he told Germany they were on the wrong track, and they laughed at him..

REFERENCES

Other outlets : The Brussels Signal, Deseret News, TVPWorld, The Brussels Signal, aa.com, and American Thinker.

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h/t Bally in Q

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