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More coal plants is incorrect and the shutdown of the nuclear power plants was planned anyway. Since the mid 1980s no less...

Basically most of the plants that were shut down simply didn't get their runtime extended again and would've been shut down in a few years anyway.

And the utility companies owning them get billions in compensation and don't have o pay for waste disposal of all the irradiated parts either...

Facts that nuclear proponents always conveniently ignore...



https://www.powermag.com/germany-brings-last-new-coal-plant-...

> What is expected to be the last new coal plant to come online in Germany entered commercial operation on May 30, more than a decade after it was first planned.

> The 1,100-MW Datteln 4 power plant, owned by Uniper and located in Datteln in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, opened despite the German government’s stated plan to end coal-fired power generation in the country.




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