As everyone is praising Germany with good weather and temporarily increased use of renewables, the same people rarely notice that France *also* has renewable and combined with nuclear their energy sectors is extremely low-carbon (30 gCO2eq/kWh) - Germany never goes below 150.
@kravietz
such calculation often omit the externalized costs of nuclear energy. A study by the French government concluded that a Fukushima style disaster would cost them €430bn, which is more than plant operators and insurance companies can pay, meaning the state will have to cover it.
https://fr.reuters.com/article/topNews/idFRPAE91601Q20130207
The ecological/social/health impacts of uranium mining and the somewhat unsolved problem of waste disposal have to be considered as well.
http://www.afrol.com/articles/36725
> somewhat unsolved problem of waste disposal
This is the whole high-level nuclear waste for the last 50 years of Swiss nuclear industry. There's a guy standing in the middle. How is that "unsolved" exactly?
@kravietz guaranteeing that these containers and that building remain intact for the next few thousand years. Also, this is the solution that germany came up with:
https://www.ksta.de/image/6481462/2x1/940/470/afc996b52c7b1dd73a877e0a21042a6e/lv/14826c00cddd75ff-jpg.jpg
"Few thousands"? Do you even realize that 95% of used nuclear fuel is being recycled back into nuclear fuel, and what is left is absolutely tiny amounts? And these tiny amounts lose 95% of their radiotoxicity after just 100 years? This is simple physics, but Greenpeace will never tell you that.
