Summary

A new Innofact poll shows 55% of Germans support returning to nuclear power, a divisive issue influencing coalition talks between the CDU/CSU and SPD.

While 36% oppose the shift, support is strongest among men and in southern and eastern Germany.

About 22% favor restarting recently closed reactors; 32% support building new ones.

Despite nuclear support, 57% still back investment in renewables. The CDU/CSU is exploring feasibility, but the SPD and Greens remain firmly against reversing the nuclear phase-out, citing stability and past policy shifts.

  • prole
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    9 days ago

    Fukushima’s reactors were extremely old, even at the time. We’re not even talking about the same technology. Shit has come a very long way.

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      9 days ago

      Sure, and the next catastrophe will have some good reason too, yet it will happen due to human error and greed.

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        9 days ago

        Unlike the complete safety of fossil fuels.

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            8 days ago

            Cool, so continue to pretend that you didn’t see the chart in this very thread? Here it is again:

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              8 days ago

              There is more to the calculation of risk than just looking at this data. You know very well how large the impact of individual disasters is.

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      9 days ago

      That must be why you people are suggesting to turn the extremely old German reactors back on that have had limited maintenance under the assumption that they would be turned off for decades now.

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        9 days ago

        That must be why you people are suggesting to turn the extremely old German reactors back on

        Is that what I did? Well that’s news to me!