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0 pointspreisschild11mo ago0 comments

> The science service of the German Bundestag seems to disagree [4]. A more comprehensive study is here [5].

You are wrong. It's not the science service of the Bundestag quoted in your link, but the exact same junk-science study by the anti-nuclear "Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft" that you quote below

See here: https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/14/080/1408084.pdf

Antwort des Parlamentarischen Staatssekretärs Siegmar Mosdorf vom 15. Januar 2002 > In Deutschland sind bisher in Leichtwasserreaktoren ca. 3 225 Mrd. kWh erzeugt und in öffentliche Netze eingespeist worden. Subventio- nen für die kommerzielle Stromerzeugung aus Kernenergie gab es nicht. Allerdings wurde die Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Kern- energie durch öffentliche Mittel unterstützt.

Translated:

Answer from Parliamentary State Secretary Siegmar Mosdorf dated January 15, 2002 In Germany, around 3,225 billion kWh have been generated in light water reactors and fed into the public grid. There are no subsidies for commercial electricity generation from nuclear energy . However, research in the field of nuclear energy has been supported by public funds.

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Propelloni11mo ago

You are mistaken, just read the whole science service report and not only the chapter on subsidies (which leads with a definition of subsidies that includes all furtherances). However Mr. Mosdorf is not wrong, even if his data foundation remains unclear. There were, respectively are, no direct subsidies, just tax exemptions, indemnifications, and cost absorptions, esp. with regards to long-running waste disposal costs.

Anyway, nuclear power probably is not economical, but it also is not an existential threat, like climate change. So there are better hills to die on than this topic.

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Propelloni11mo ago

Anyway, nuclear power probably is not economical, but it also is not an existential threat, like climate change. So there are better hills to die on than this topic.

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