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Meanwhile in Germany:

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can shut down or scale back energy/electricity produced from nuclear power plants as well by controlling the reaction rate. What would have been ideal was if nuclear had remained and the renewables took the production capacity share from fossil fuels

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The German nuclear plants needed maintenance and refurbishment. Makes sense to invest an other billion to run it for 2 more years.

The renewable energy share skyrocketed since the nuclear shutdown