At some point in 2022....the last of the six nuclear power plants in Germany will be shutdown. At some point back in 2010, nuke power was providing one-fifth of German grid requirements. Since Fukushima, there's been a serious shut-down attitude by the government. So the goal is the last of the unit shutdown in 2022.
I noticed off N-24 (commercial German news) an item today, where a couple of retired nuke engineers have suggested a plan where there the six are kept on....renovated to some degree, and retained (I assume for another twenty years).
Odds of selling this idea? If you prioritized things and saving the Earth was a top priority....then the low-carbon 'thrills' of nuke plants would entice you. Polls in the last couple of months even showed half of the German population were acceptable to the plants staying around.....to 'save' the Earth.
If the plants are retired...the odds that various regions will be buying non-German nuke power from the French or the Czechs? No one talks about this, but it's probably pretty high odds that the grid requirements (ever increasing in Germany) will be tested severely, and the hefty out-of-country cost requirements will be felt.
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