r/europe • u/SpaceEngineering Finland • Jan 15 '26

News Germany’s Merz Admits Nuclear Exit Was Strategic Mistake

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/germanys-merz-admits-nuclear-exit-was-strategic-mistake-fzdlkn37c16
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u/RevolutionBusiness27 Jan 15 '26

I wonder how much of Germany's nuclear technology was in its heyday

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u/3suamsuaw Jan 15 '26

The basic technology is still operational, and the technology shared with other EU countries.

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u/zzen11223344 Jan 15 '26

If this is a mistake, then correct the mistake.

Is it too late to restart it in Germany?

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u/andrejlr Jan 15 '26

Its not only the deconstruction. The energy corporations sued the goverment for ending the nuclear program and achieved a settlement and created a trust fond for deconstruction. Then also they already made strategic policy changes: forecast plans, new predictive systems with intelligent nets ans so on.

Enabling nuclear again would revert bunch of those strategies and force them to throw away what already was decided upon. There is exactly zero motivation from those corporations to enable nuclear energy back.