Germany's May Electricity Prices Surge to Four Times that of France.

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4. Over-reaching on the motives of those who are critical of nuclear energy

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Merz declared the nuclear phase-out a mistake (duh), but he also committed to a greater effort on renewable energy.

Your repeated claim that “anti-nukes” are not interested in the problem of climate change is merely an opinion and there is no basis for claiming “that they're fine with Germany reopening coal plants”. You are mis-characterizing their motives and dismissing some very valid concerns about nuclear energy.

If you think it’s okay to assign motives to those people, perhaps you don’t have a problem being associated with the Trump administration’s push to boost and expand the nuclear industry. Using your approach to understanding motivation, we can assume that the sole reason for this increase in commercial reactors is to develop a stronger industrial base for military nuclear reactors and weapons. And the nuke-bros are celebrating it, so they must be tight with Trump & Co. and only care about producing and operating more military reactors and weapons. Yeah, okay, I'm starting to see how this works. It's all clear now, thank you so much.

I’ll repeat the point that you seem to have missed: France is also increasing their commitment to renewable energy; especially Offshore Wind. Does that make them "anti-nukes"? In any case, I guess they know which way the wind is blowing.