jdkee 8 hours ago

Germany took it's last three nuclear reactors offline in 2023 and now the primary source of their electrical generation is coal.

See https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...

  • fxde 8 hours ago

    Your claim about current electrical generation is incorrect and obviously not supported by your source, which shows data from 2021.

  • epistasis 6 hours ago

    In addition to the other corrections here, I'd like to add one more remarkable fact: in 2025 the share of German electricity generated by solar increased to 18% from 14%. That's in a single year, in a country with terribly low levels of sun! Nuclear generated 5% of electricity before it was shut down, and had generated that same percentage for more than a decade (that's as far back as the chart I saw went).

    It's remarkably easy to scale solar to very large amounts in short time periods. Far easier than building a new nuclear fleet.