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epistasisyesterday at 7:16 PM1 replyview on HN

As technology improves, we have less and less need for nuclear. The continent with the greatest need for nuclear is Europe, and these German grid modelers have taken a look at the EU grid with the latest data and decided that additional baseload generation (like nuclear) is not required and will likely increase costs if built:

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/...


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jdkeeyesterday at 7:21 PM

Germany took it's last three nuclear reactors offline in 2023 and now the primary source of their electrical generation is coal.

See https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...

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