Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants
While I agree that it would have been sensible to phase out coal and then nuclear, the german position is more complex. The fallout from Tschernobyl was measurable in Germany… measurable as in my science teacher measured it in his garden. Up to today boar and mushrooms have an elevated level of radiation in the forests around my home. So this is the emotional background, the risks are not far away. Fukushima gave the debate another spin „If Japan can’t control the technology nobody can“.<p>I still thank shutting them off is wrong but I think there’s a lot of history in that decision. And it’s much more history than one party deciding that.