This past week saw the unimaginable: a leading modern industrialized economy has shut down its entire nuclear power generation grid.
Why has Germany pulled the plug on its own energy independence? Who is driving this agenda, and what does it mean for Germany’s national energy security and sovereignty? [emphasis, links added]
The closure of the facility at Emsland, and the Neckarwestheim II and Isar II facilities last week was celebrated by the Greens, and heralded as a victory for anti-nuclear campaigners at rallies hosted in Berlin and Munich.
On the surface, this may seem like it was spurred on by the 2011 meltdown at Fukushima in Japan, with pressure placed on successive governments to end the use of nuclear power that Green campaigners and politicians argue is ‘unsafe and unsustainable.’
However, this seems more likely to be part of the wider geostrategic energy realignment.
“Today’s receipt of the dismantling permit for Neckarwestheim 2 is not only an important step for the Neckarwestheim site, but also a strong signal that EnBW is serious about implementing the energy transition,” said Jörg Michels, Managing Director of the EnBW nuclear power division.
“Our master plan for decommissioning, which we defined more than ten years ago, aims, among other things, to ensure the safe and speedy decommissioning of our nuclear power plants. (Source: World Nuclear News)
It’s important to note that Germany is now almost completely dependent on Western energy vendors, namely the USA and its resurgent trans-Atlantic LNG trade to Europe.
Hence, this latest nuclear closure event should be viewed properly in the context of the Ukraine war, anti-Russian sanctions, and the subsequent attack on the German-Russian joint Nordstream pipeline infrastructure. …
Alongside the closure of the nuclear plants, German multinational electric utility E.ON increased its prices by as much as 45% starting June 1.
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Consider the article on the push for degrowth that is on this web site. Shutting down nuclear power while eliminating energy from fossil fuels follows the degrowth objective perfectly.
I can remember a British Prime Minister during the early days of nuclear power stating that it “would give us electricity so cheap that it wouldn’t be worth metering it!”
Additional DieterLand Trauma Coverage:
Putin’s Ploy Achieved: Final Shut Down of Germany’s Nuclear Power Plants
https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/putins-ploy-achieved-final-shut-down
German Nuclear Madness: Last Minute Appeals from Nobel Laureate and Climate Scientists Ignored by DieterLand Politicians
https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/german-nuclear-madness-last-minute
Humans in the civilized world are almost entirely dependent on electricity/oil/gas for their cooking/heating needs…,what would happen if that supply were to cease?? Go back to burning wood?Foraging? There would be mass pandemonium as people ill-equipped to surviving outside
the”grid” would rush to empty remaining food stocks and /or look for new sources of fuel…,
Cannabilism?Mad Max scenarios come to reality??!
And it would be a self-inflicted Mad Max because there is no reason for us to run out of electricity since we have plenty of coal, oil, and natural gas. Totally caused by the Biden administration and similar ones in the western countries.
You can’t fix stupid. And the Germans have become especially stupid. If they truly believe the nonsense that CO2 is a dangerous gas which will destroy all life is they don’t reduce the production of CO2 then why on God’s green earth would they shut down the one reliable source of electricity that doesn’t produce CO2? My guess is they will continue to burn coal to produce electricity, thus adding to the CO2 in the atmosphere.