Starting 1 January....one of the three remaining nuke plants in Germany will shut down....while the other two are kept on stand-by 'alert', to be cranked up if necessary. Well....this is the plan but it has yet to be put to a vote in the Bundestag, and the FDP Party isn't really supporting it. It's a Green Party plan (they run the energy grid business for the coalition government).
So today, the question came up.....to run two nuke plants, but produce NO electricity....what's the cost....per day for the two to operate?
500,000 Euro (roughly a half-million dollars....per day, for the two).
Getting people peeved? Oh yeah.....for 90 days, they are flushing 45-million Euro down the drain.
Odds of this passing via the Bundestag now? I'd give it less than a 50-percent chance.
So as a minimum....the two ought to be turned on, and allowed produce power, without any discussion.
This getting to a page one situation? Currently, I'd rate this as one of the top ten issues under discussion in Germany. Just about everyone has an opinion.
The fact that they already have the rods to run the systems for one quarter? That's another part of the story which is lesser presented to the public.
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