The title is highly misleading, it's fuel rods for MAYBE one of the three reactors until the year end. The spokesperson is also a spokesperson of a company that took all the nuclear reactors from major energy companies into their portfolio to decommission them. The interviews he took as proof for the lying were also given before the TÜV assured them that ONE of the THREE reactors could run until 06.23 without recertification. The author also did a 180 on climate change and is now a full conspiracy nutjob.<p>Here is the real statement of the ministry WITH the nuclear experts from all energy companies. Yes, they could run them longer... two for 80 days in a lower efficiency "Steckbetrieb"
and one for ONE year but they all have no certification to run. Expected more from a bestselling author...<p><a href="https://www.bmuv.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Download_PDF/Nukleare_Sicherheit/laufzeitverlaengerung_akw_bf.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.bmuv.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Download_PDF/Nuklear...</a>
Although he directly cites Habeck explaining the situation, the author does not understand his point:<p>There is no electricity shortage in germany, there is a large dependency of the industry on natural gas in production processes. Sometimes used for heating, which might get substituted by elctrical heating. More often gas is used in chemical processes, where there is no direct substitute.
I don't agree with him. Continuing with Nuclear just for geopolitical reasons is only a stopgap. No country except finland has a permanent storage option for waste, and I think it's very admirable that Germany is going nuclear-free. It's just as unsustainable as fossil fuels, it's just on a much longer timeframe so we can push it forward. The current climate crisis shows what that leads to.<p>And it could be that those fuel rod offers were refused for a technical reason or something. It feels a bit like we're only getting one side of the story here.
> <i>We have a heating problem or an industry problem, but not an electricity problem — at least not generally throughout the country.</i><p>I don't even get that logic. The easy substitution for gas heating is electric heating (all you need is to plug a cheap portable electric heater in a power socket).<p>[edit] also it seems 12% of the german electricity is generated with gas. So more nuclear should directly translate in more gas available to some other use, shouldn't it?
> As such, anti-nuclear Greens are putting Europe in grave danger.<p>Everyone who is advocating sanctioning is putting europe in a grave danger. Be it "green" agenda or anti-russian agenda.<p>Sadly it's the modern way to redistribute wealth.