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Germany to Keep Last Three Nuclear-Power Plants Running in Policy U-Turn
WSJ ^ | 16 Aug 2022 | Bojan Pancevski

Posted on 08/16/2022 4:47:37 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Germany plans to postpone the closure of the country’s last three nuclear power plants as it braces for a possible shortage of energy this winter after Russia throttled gas supplies to the country, said German government officials.

Mr. Scholz hinted at the decision last week, saying for the first time that it could make sense to keep Germany’s last three nuclear reactors online.

Mothballed coal plants have already been brought back online to prevent energy blackouts after Russia slashed gas supplies in June, a decision that will complicate Berlin’s plans to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and reduce air pollution.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: coal; coalplants; energy; energyblackouts; europe; gas; germany; nuclear; powerplants; russia; stillclosing
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“Not everyone [who keeps using nuclear energy] in the world is stupider than us,” Friedrich Merz, chairman of the center-right Christian Democratic Union, said in a recent radio interview.
1 posted on 08/16/2022 4:47:37 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Full TXT:
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2 posted on 08/16/2022 4:48:42 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They’re going to need more but they’ll hum and haw . It’s time to stop the global warming crap


3 posted on 08/16/2022 4:49:17 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Time to organize the dirty stinking hippie chicks to protest this at volume 11


4 posted on 08/16/2022 4:49:22 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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5 posted on 08/16/2022 4:51:18 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It appears stupid finally met reality.


6 posted on 08/16/2022 4:51:36 PM PDT by heshtesh
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Only Fascists, Nazis, and Racists... would do this! LOL!!!
7 posted on 08/16/2022 4:52:23 PM PDT by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Europe is in a drought and water levels are low. Will they have enough water flow to cool the reactors?


8 posted on 08/16/2022 4:52:24 PM PDT by Starboard
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DONT MENTION THE WAR !


9 posted on 08/16/2022 4:53:02 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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It appears stupid finally met reality.

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That usually means the government will proper at the peoples’ expense.


10 posted on 08/16/2022 4:53:18 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: dsrtsage

Putin is already paying the usual suspects to put political pressure on Euro governments. They started in March, thereabouts. I saw one of these manifestations in Madrid, in April. There have been many others, with different specific objectives, in France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Britain. There may have been others elsewhere but I’ve probably missed them.


11 posted on 08/16/2022 4:54:52 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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12 posted on 08/16/2022 4:55:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Starboard

Governments going full global warming until rope sales go off the charts ,LOL


13 posted on 08/16/2022 4:56:47 PM PDT by butlerweave
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,☑️


14 posted on 08/16/2022 4:57:54 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Maybe they should have listened to Trump rather than laughing up their sleeves.


15 posted on 08/16/2022 4:58:15 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: Starboard

Go check on levels of the Ems, Isar, and Neckar rivers.


16 posted on 08/16/2022 4:58:27 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: BereanBrain

Tellingly, there were no enviro protests vs Nordstream 2.


17 posted on 08/16/2022 4:59:24 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Control all woman with prayer fastings and the church. See


18 posted on 08/16/2022 5:00:25 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors)
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Germans tend to be smarter than your average bear. But even they concede the “cunning b******s” of Switzerland (as they call them), are more clever still. (40% of Switzerland’s electricity is generated by its nuclear power plants.)


19 posted on 08/16/2022 5:01:03 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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“Go check on levels of the Ems, Isar, and Neckar rivers.”


What are their levels?


20 posted on 08/16/2022 5:02:38 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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