That timescale is also enough time for (global) battery production rate to reach multiple TWh of additional capacity each year, which may not seem like enough, but remember batteries only have to fill the gap when there is no wind at night while the hydroelectric reservoirs are low. I'm also expecting some hydrogen in there, not because it's great, but because it's so easy I made some myself when I was single-digit-years-old.
If you can make nuclear fast, cheap, and safe, then of course we should go for it, but the current ones, are only safe, as they are slow and expensive to build.
If you really want 100% renewables, not 90%, then yes, it becomes tricky, but here hydrogen provides a solution.
It takes min 10 years to get nuclear on grid (even if you had the industry to do it), so absent Russian gas it's either US LNG (of course much more expensive, and also foreign) or back to burning coal. It's going to have to be the latter, in order to keep the energy intensive manufacturing economy going.
More carbon in the air, and it probably won't work anyway as German manufacturing goods will be more expensive, less competitive compared to East Asia than they are today. Multi-decade decline on the cards for Europe's biggest economy - which will in turn find expression in the politics of democratic systems
Much of the world's nuclear sector is highly dependent on Russia and Russia-dependent states, both for uranium and technology. This was the reason why the USA at first shied away from sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry after the invasion of Ukraine.
For more information see the article: "The Rosatom Exemption: How Russia's State-Run Nuclear Giant Has Escaped Sanctions" (Radio Free Europe) at: https://www.rferl.org/a/rosatom-russia-nuclear-giant-escapes...
2. Nuclear reactors require permanent external cooling, we already had to shut down reactors because of insufficient cooling, but that is not an permanent solution, because they still require cooling.
3. The fatalities in the text are only some of them, in bavaria wild boars still have to be tested for radiation and have to be disposed as radioactive trash. Plus the radioactive clouds were all over europe.
4.france has to shutdown most of its nuclear reactors already plus they found Fake certificates of integral parts of the new edf reactors and in old ones.
btw: france is replacing the missing power with reneweable power from germany
5. The current energycrisis is caused by the cdu and csu, because they made deals that made germany more dependent from russia and after he served and made an deal with the state owned russian oil corporation he got an high position in said company.
To #5: Let's not forget SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder who has long been working with Russia and orchestrated part of the move to Russian gas. He ruled along with the Greens. "In his first term, Schröder's government decided to phase out nuclear power"
"Since leaving public office, Schröder has worked for Russian state-owned energy companies, including Nord Stream AG, Rosneft, and Gazprom."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Domestic...
FWIW, nuclear and gas aren't even replacements for each other in Germany, and never were. There are some nine million furnaces that burn gas and can't burn anything else, lots of gas stoves in people's kitchens, and some important gas users who use gas molecules to make other molecules. Only a little gas is used to make electricity for sale.
The article mistakenly confuses niche and common uses, and uses that mistake to support its conclusions. But when the support is mistaken all conclusions crumble.
Another option is to use electricity for heating, either resistive heating or with heat pumps, which are already in use and have been subsidized until 2021.
Either way, it would not be the end of the world to move away from gas especially if you just can't get any.
Gas for chemical processes, I would have to defer to scientists for that.
It's like a car in some ways: Once you've bought a diesel car, you don't have a choice of fuel any more. You've chosen.
And even now it’s the same ridiculous tired arguments. “It’s too late for nuclear!”
Oh yeah? Well enjoy the coal power. You’ve earned it.
