Germany doing nothing actually would have been preferable. Instead they shut down their last 3 large, state of the art, nuclear power plants in April 2023, and continued with their $500 billion investment in solar and wind in a country with comparatively little wind or sunshine. Their self sacrificing based on platitudes is embarrassing.
Yep. Mind-boggling. Here in Switzerland, the more stupid among us voted to close down our nuke power stations. Fortunately, the government has been slow walking the closures, and we also get a lot of energy from hydro.
By contrast, Japan is rolling out small self-contained molten salt nuclear reactors (which can't melt down unless the laws of physics change) all over their grid. I would love to have one myself (they're about the size of a shipping container and will put out 1 megawatt for 30 years before needing refueling).
Germany doing nothing actually would have been preferable. Instead they shut down their last 3 large, state of the art, nuclear power plants in April 2023, and continued with their $500 billion investment in solar and wind in a country with comparatively little wind or sunshine. Their self sacrificing based on platitudes is embarrassing.
Yep. Mind-boggling. Here in Switzerland, the more stupid among us voted to close down our nuke power stations. Fortunately, the government has been slow walking the closures, and we also get a lot of energy from hydro.
By contrast, Japan is rolling out small self-contained molten salt nuclear reactors (which can't melt down unless the laws of physics change) all over their grid. I would love to have one myself (they're about the size of a shipping container and will put out 1 megawatt for 30 years before needing refueling).