Reply To: Earthquake v. Powerplants

[Henning]

Generally the rethinking of nuclear fission opens up other resources, now available to water, wind, solar, and possibly fusion.

It’s a chance, not a detriment.

Just watch the anti-nuclear (anti-fission) movement in Germany. The old government (social democrats and greens) decided a phase-out of fission plants, the new government (christian democrats and so called “liberals”, more in an Australian way “liberal” than American “liberal”, they go where the money is) reverted that phase-out. But people understood that investing in fission locks resources required for a switch to more renewable energy construction, storage, and distribution.

That’s why they are protesting now. They smell a chance of pressing the government in their direction, especially as in the next few weeks several elections will take place. Oh, and with these elections Merkel now reverts the revertment of the phase-out. She isn’t concerned about safety, just about elections. After elections all the German fission plants will go online again, if she doesn’t get stopped.

Nuclear fission always has been enormously subsidised. In this subsidy the deconstruction and (safe) deposition of waste isn’t even included. Cost-calculations are way off.

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PS: Es geht um unsere Zukunft.