Dumb. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
They created two issues (both oddly with Merkel in the mix).
1. For years, they’d temp-stored nuke waste, waiting for a disposal ‘cave’ solution to be prepared. Merkel (as the wall came down) was brought in given a high post as the minister in charge of nuke disposal. She would eventually say that the idea would not work....mostly because of the extreme anti-nuke position of the ‘left’.
2. Then you had the Fukushima episode. In this case as Chancellor, Merkel took the position that Germany could never allow itself to have a accident like this.
Then oddly, this position was taken at the same time that coal-powered plants were deemed ‘evil’ and they had to be cut as well.
There’s no doubt, a lot of power will be missing and either the French or the Poles...will be selling power to them...at a excessive rate. The amusing thing is that it’ll come from mostly nuke power plants.