Merz: "It is necessary to reach a moratorium on dismantling" In a live national press conference minutes ago, incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for a nuclear dismantling moratorium. This is the first step to saving German nuclear plants and restarting them. - ThreadSky

energybants.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Merz: "It is necessary to reach a moratorium on dismantling"

In a live national press conference minutes ago, incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for a nuclear dismantling moratorium.

This is the first step to saving German nuclear plants and restarting them.

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thedevsteve.bsky.social•6 days ago

What does the white/transparent shading on the bottom right corner mean on the second graphic? Removed or disassembled?

energybants.bsky.social•5 days ago

depending on the item, can mean disassembled or completely destroyed

grths.bsky.social•6 days ago

Sanity is restoring.

fantasmavie.bsky.social•6 days ago

Let's go.

Please Merz be serious.

mona-lee.bsky.social•5 days ago

A moratorium on dismantling nuclear power plants does leave room for maneuver in future energy policies, but the key question is whether the government is willing to invest in upgrading these plants and addressing social concerns about the safety of nuclear energy.

andyammerland.bsky.social•5 days ago

Even the OWNERS of the plants say "no, impossible". The personnel has gone, nuclear fuel is not available, the turbines corroded and the safety standards far below anything what is today's standards. NO. They can never restart an old reactor for legal, practical and technical reasons.

peterbayley.bsky.social•5 days ago

Stupid. Renewables including storage are rapidly getting better and cheaper while nuclear will NEVER be cheap and is actually getting far more expensive while continuing to be very high risk.
Renewables have won. Get over it ideologically and move on.

drcrlsnpe.bsky.social•3 days ago

Renewables deploy.

In 2021, Germany's six nuclear plants generated 69.13 TWh of electricity.

Worldwide in 2023, renewables added that much generation in about 1.5 months.

drcrlsnpe.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nuclear advos have no sense of proportion.

Electricity generation from renewables in Germany exceeded 150TWh each year since 2013; >250TWh in 2023.

🥜 Nuclear generation (TWh) in Germany—
2006 167 (hist. peak)
2021 69.1
2023 7.2

lefttenant.bsky.social•5 days ago

You need to get over the propaganda that was propagated by the fossil fuel industry. Nuclear is an obvious component of a clean energy mix. It will not subsume renewable's energy production. Your type always acts like nuclear proponents are out to cannibalize renewables and it's getting annoying.

peterbayley.bsky.social•3 days ago

I protested CND many years ago. There was then a list of perceived problems with Nuclear including soaring costs, dangers of uranium mining, security against terrorism, waste disposal & storage & decommissioning.
In the intervening decades, NOT ONE of the concerns then have been solved.
NOT ONE :-(

cristoforestman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Costs are the consequence of depleted supply chain, overregulation and foak builds. China proved, just like France during messmer that npp can be built fast and cheap.
Uranium mining dangers aren't much different from dgr for ren mining. And do require much less materials
Terr security is solved?

cristoforestman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Decommissioning is ongoing in DE, not a problem at all.
Final storage is a problem mostly kept for political debate. It's already decided in Finland and Sweden. Also DE has several facilities for storing forever toxic chemicals (arsenic, cadmium - some from ren waste) forever...

cristoforestman.bsky.social•3 days ago

And politicians are saying "we can't find a solution for storing temporary toxic nuclear waste nor we want it's recycling, BUT we have a solution for storing forever toxic waste forever"
Make it make sense...
And no, storage isn't vastly different once n waste is vitrified and put in casks

cristoforestman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hmm. So many statements here without foundation
Per kwh in terms of deaths nuclear is safest or second safest power
Existing DE npp were cheapest firm power- below coal and gas.
Restarting these units is cheaper even compared to new ren projects
New npp albeit more expensive are still cheaper vs ren

cristoforestman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Let's take the failed FLA3. It needs to sell at 90€/mwh to be profitable+10€ for waste. Sounds a lot? UK cfd's for recent offshore are already 100+€ and greenvolt a whopping 180€/mwh, similar to DE cfd for biomass burning wood pellets.
It's still cheaper than combo of renewables subsidies like:

cristoforestman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Cfd, congestion, transmission and firming. That's why DE spends the equivalent of 2 FLA3 per year for these. That's why in IPEX data for EU renewables already get more subsidies than fossils while nuclear is a distant third

peterbayley.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not a single Nuclear power stations has been successfully & completely decommissioned (only mothballed) so we don't even know what those costs are.
No one has successfully built a Nuclear Waste Disposal facility. All waste is simply stored awaiting a solution.
Nuclear's just not economically viable

cristoforestman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Costs are pretty well known based on international xp and current decom progress.
Finland just built a repository and Sweden started building one this year. Imo these aren't needed in the context of fast reactors development but for each country strategy is different.
NPP are extremely econ viable

cristoforestman.bsky.social•3 days ago

For example Goesgen in Switzerland sells for 4.34ct/kwh all costs included. And their waste disposal tax is 2x vs tax in DE, that already got almost 25bn in it, equivalent of 5 Finnish repositories including 100y operation till sealing.
Meanwhile DE spends equivalent of 2 FLA3/y on ren subsidies...

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