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Germany / Nuclear Policy Would Have Cost €332 Billion Less Than Energiewende, Research Suggests

By David Dalton
22 August 2024

Reactors would have saved money and helped meet climate goals, says paper

Nuclear Policy Would Have Cost €332 Billion Less Than Energiewende, Research Suggests
The Isar-2 (pictured), Neckarwestheim-2 and Emsland nuclear plants were shut down for good in April 2023. Courtesy PreussenElektra.
If Germany had kept operating its existing nuclear power plants from 2002 and invested in new reactor capacity, it would have cut costs associated with its energy transition in half and secured its climate goals in the process, research has suggested.

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