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		imtringued on Jan 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why is Germany so anti nuclear? Japan could have torn down all its nuclear power plants and built newer ones. Yet no country on earth is shutting down their old unsafe plants to build new ones.

max002 on Jan 8, 2022 [–]

True, they shut them down to replace with renewables. And because keeping old ones active is becoming more and more expensive.

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