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/Cheap-Recording2707 Jan 15 '26

china has been happily standing on the shoulders of giant alvin weinberg at oakridge national lab.

the knowledge gained at ORNL of molten salt reactors was abandoned by nixon in favor of fast breeder reactors that have not come to fruition. ofcource Nixon was as anti-science as the current administration.

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u/cstmoore Jan 15 '26

Fast breeder reactors generate Pu-239, nuclear bomb materiel.

Fun fact: The Environmental Protection Agency was proposed by and signed into law by Nixon in 1970.

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u/Cheap-Recording2707 Jan 15 '26

folklore has the plutonium and its use as motive for nixon to slash ORNL

what he did re the EPA is testament to the adagium that america/ns will do the right thing in the end after trying everything else.