Why Germany Hates Nuclear Power

This is Germany in the 1980s.

Before the Berlin Wall came down. Still fractured in two between two world superpowers, and this is the map of Nuclear Power plants that powered the country. The 1980s was an eventful time period for this recovering nation. Chernobyl, located here, just north of Kiev, exploded. Showering Europe in radioactive material. The severity of the incident can be hard to grasp in hindsight. Iodine tablets were distributed across Europe. An emergency preventative medicine to ensure that the thyroid gland is saturated in non-radioactive iodine, preventing it from absorbing the radioactive iodine present in nuclear fallout. Where it could fester and cause cancer. The fallout from Chernobyl spread on westerly winds across Europe. And the news spread even faster. The people of Europe were afraid. “Local people received 7.4 milligrays an hour of radiation Radioactive cesium is recycling in the moss Because I have been thinking all day about this radiation radiation and nothing more The chernobyl disaster could reap a bitter harvest for the peasant farmers of Poland's far north east If the worst has already happened, the first cases of leukemia should be appearing now.” Chernobyl was given the highest ranking on the International Nuclear Event Scale. A 7, a major accident with a large release of radioactive materials. Or, in less technical terms, Europe was crop dusted in cancer dust. [1] This event, understandably, put a massive dent in support for nuclear energy across the world. But, this wasn’t the genesis of the anti-nuclear movement in Germany. In 1975, 30,000 protestors occupied the construction site of a new nuclear power plant in south western Germany, on the border with France. In 1979, 7 years before chernobyl, 200,000 protestors took to the streets of Germany after the 3 Mile Island nuclear disaster in the United States. The anti-nuclear movement in Germany was a grassroots movement, led by the people, and driven by fears of the very real danger nuclear energy poses. There was a tremendous amount of political pressure to begin phasing out these plants, and these protests led directly to the creation of Germany’s Green Party in 1980. The Chernobyl accident of 1986 simply strengthened the support for the Greens political ideology. To phase out nuclear energy completely. In 1998, the Green Party came into power for the first time, and the true end of nuclear power in Germany was all but secured. It was decided that no new nuclear power generators would be built in the country from then forward, and in 2002 a law banning new nuclear energy was passed. With two nuclear power plants being taken offline prematurely in Germany soon after. Angela Merkel, and her opposition party the CDU, called these deactivations “destruction of national property” However, in the wake of the Fukushima Disaster, even Merkel's opposition to the anti-nuclear movement began to falter. Fukushima is the only other incident in the history of nuclear power that was ranked on par with Chernobyl, receiving the highest ranking possible due to its impact on the environment and the people of Japan. The Green Party’s power in Germany was now at an all time high, winning control in influential and powerful states in the south of Germany for the first time. The anti-nuclear movement was too large a political football, or perhaps nuclear football, to ignore, and Merkel’s CDU party joined the anti-nuclear movement. Nuclear Energy had lost this war, and the final nuclear power plants in Germany began to flicker out. On April 15th 2023. The final nuclear power plant was shut down. Holding on through the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion on Ukraine, it finally met its planned end. The images of protestors, celebrating the end of their 50 year war on nuclear energy, were met with anger and disgust by pro-nuclear activists online. Mirroring Merkal’s “destruction of national property” outrage in the early 2000s. How could you celebrate something that so clearly harms Germany’s goals of clean energy. Shutting its nuclear facilities has caused Germany to be far more dependent on fossil fuel than its neighbor France. This is what a typical day in France looks like. Baseload is provided by nuclear energy. Providing 65-75% of the country's power depending on the time of day. Wind, Solar and Hydro play their part too, with a small amount of flexible gas powered plants available to quickly ramp up when called upon. Releasing just 30-40 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour generated. France is in a group of few. An industrial giant. Energy independent. Not reliant on foreign imports of fossil fuels. And not just powering its own country on low carbon energy, It also supports its own economy by exporting massive quantities of this power to its neighbors through high voltage interconnections. A rare example of a country with few fossil fuel resources of its own becoming an energy exporter. Germany couldn’t be any more different. Germany emits 440 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour generated. Due to the fact that 20-25% of Germany’s power comes from environmentally disastrous coal. With a further 10-15% coming from gas. With the remaining power coming from wind, solar and biomass. While Germany does receive a large percentage of its power from renewables, without adequate energy storage or a nuclear base load, the country has become extremely dependent on fossil fuels. This dependance became all the more apparent as natural gas imports from Russia were cut off, causing electricity prices to skyrocket across Europe. This feels like a blatant own goal. A 10 fold increase in carbon emissions. German’s aren’t ignorant of the damage coal is having on their environment either. Expansions of coal mines have been protested too, and the Green Party of Germany has been under fire for its vote of approval for an expansion of an open pit mine. If there has ever been an icon of industry driven climate change it has to be the colossal bucket excavators that roam this mine. [2] The German government has expressed a desire to phase out coal power soon, but their only realistic option to do that currently is to import even more natural gas. One thing needs to be acknowledged in this debate. Both sides of this argument ultimately want the same end goal. Clean, safe sustainable energy. We are on the same team. The disagreement is on what is considered clean and safe. This exact argument went to the European Parliament in 2022, where France fought for EU legislation to label Nuclear Energy and Natural Gas to be labeled green. That second part will sound strange, but natural gas does play a vital role in expanding renewables in the absence of suitable energy storage. That subject needs an entire video to itself to explain. This legislation divided the European Union, with 328 votes for and 278 against. The success of the legislation angered many, with politicians labeling it as “an odious greenwashing attempt with Macron (the French President) as conductor” [3] Clearly this is a divisive issue, and GreenPeace is currently trying to sue the EU over it, but this legislation paves the way for more countries to emulate what France has done and invest more money into nuclear energy while meeting EU mandated sustainable energy targets. [4]. France, on the surface, feels like the gold standard of climate policy. [5] But, let’s take a deeper look at how this came to be, and the challenges France is facing in maintaining this energy policy. For that we need to rewind 50 years. It’s 1973. Egyptian and Syrian forces have launched a surprise attack on Israel on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in an attempt to recapture land on the Sinai peninsula, taken from Egypt in 1967 during the Six Day War. Western allies of Israel rushed to support their counter offensives, and in retaliation the union of Arab oil exporters embargoed exports to these countries, causing oil prices worldwide to skyrocket. Despite France not being a target of these embargoes, it was a wakeup call for the powerful country. With few energy resources of its own, its economy was extremely vulnerable to outside manipulation. Nuclear Energy was the answer, and from 1974 onwards nuclear energy capacity rapidly grew. cutscene of nuclear power plants coming online and capacity rising. [6] Over the course of these 23 years France increased its nuclear capacity at an impressive rate building 56 reactors in 19 different locations. However, new builds stopped abruptly in the wake of Chernobyl, with only two new reactors beginning construction in the aftermath of this disaster. Civaux 1 and 2, taking 8 and 9 years to complete. They came online in 1997 and 1999. These are the youngest nuclear power plants in France. 24 and 26 years old. The oldest nuclear power plant currently is the Bugey 2 reactor. Brought online in 1978, it is now 45 years old. Its older sibling, Bugey 1 began operation in 1972, and was decommissioned in 1994. It was an obsolete design, graphite moderated and cooled with carbon dioxide. It needed to be decommissioned for safety reasons. Nuclear power plants typically have a life expectancy between 20 and 40 years, which poses a problem to the French national grid, and the European grid at large, I listed every nuclear power reactor in France on this excel sheet, and was honestly shocked when I hit the averaging function. The average age of nuclear reactors in France is now 39 years old, and these aging reactors are beginning to cause some major headaches. In 2022, in the midst of an energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, France’s energy utility provider, the EDF, was ordered by the country's nuclear watchdog to inspect all plants after a 23 millimeter deep crack was found in a 27 mm thick cooling pipe which circulates low level radioactive cooling water to the reactor.[7]The cracks formed as a result of thermal fatigue in a weld seam, where heating and cooling cycles caused the pipe to expand and contract. This crack could have ruptured the pipe at any moment, and its presence raised alarm bells for the state of nuclear energy in the country, and subsequent cracks were found at other reactors. In the aftermath of these discoveries nuclear energy output for the country fell to a 34 year low while these plants were taken offline for inspection and repairs. This problem was a result of decades of under investment and mismanagement of nuclear energy in France, and to make matters worse, the technical skills needed to fix the issue have faded from existence in France as a result of the 30 year gap in nuclear energy investments and construction. France is now rushing to invest and support welding schools to bring back this important skill. [8] And they need it desperately. Now, just as the Yom Kippur war woke France up to its energy situation, the war in Ukraine and these power outages are encouraging political movement. France has begun a frantic reinvestment cycle into nuclear energy. Just a few days after narrowly escaping an ousting from Government through an unsuccessful no-confidence vote, a new nuclear energy investment plan won a landslide victory. Gaining bipartisan support, the plan will see 56 billion dollars be poured into building 6 next generation EPR2 nuclear reactors. [9] The first generation EPR began construction in north western France in 2007. Over 16 years ago. When the average age of French nuclear reactors was just 21 years old. It still hasn’t delivered any power, and is nearly 5 times over budget at 13.2 billion dollars. A far cry from the 3 billion dollars and 8 year construction time originally quoted. [10] The second generation design has been specifically redesigned to address these cost and construction issues. The design challenge of making these nuclear reactors safe, with all the knowledge we have gained from accidents over the years, is immense. This is not an isolated incident. This study states that out of 180 nuclear construction projects, 175 of them overran cost estimations. Costing on average 117 percent more than estimated, and taking 64 percent more time than projected. [11] The latest delay of this new reactor was due to simple welding issues again. When even your welds require specialized heat treatments, requiring specialized skilled laborers, and stringent safety checks, it’s going to cause headaches. The reality is, Nuclear Energy keeps getting more expensive as new safety standards are realized with each accident that occurs. While renewable energy keeps getting cheaper. The first of the six next generation EPR2 reactors will not begin construction until May 2027. Optimistically, they will take about 8 years to construct at which point the average age of nuclear reactors in France will be 49 years old. Aging nuclear reactors, to say the least, are not ideal. Posing major reliability issues as we have already seen, but a potentially disastrous safety hazard too. France is staring down the barrel of major electrical grid instabilities due to decades of under investment in nuclear energy. Nuclear energy, when done right, is clearly the best solution to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that we have right now, but the problem is, it frequently isn’t done right. So, we have to ask ourselves. Does Germany have a point? Were they right to close these nuclear reactors down? Or perhaps a middle ground between France and Germany was needed. Slowly ramping down nuclear energy while developing new renewable energy resources with the energy storage needed to create a stable grid Or perhaps we need to acknowledge the fact that nuclear energy as it stands is not viable long term, and we need to invest in future technologies that make it safer, cleaner and cheaper. The reactor still under construction in France, as it stands, has a cost of 8 million dollars per Megawatt. While wind turbines cost between 1 and 2 million dollars per megawatt, and critically, they can be installed gradually without having to commit billions to a single project. In a sense, wind turbines are modular. Smaller, cheaper, easy to replace. One future tech being worked on right now aims to give nuclear energy this same advantage. Small modular nuclear reactors aim to make smaller reactors that generate less power, but can have additional modules added over time to increase capacity. Reducing initial capital investment, making it easier to replace aging modules, and allowing the reactors to be placed in locations not suitable for larger traditional power plants. There are several companies working on these designs now, and in the next episode of Real Engineering we deep dive into these technologies. Until then you may want to get ahead of the game. 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that is Germany inside the 1980s.

before the Berlin Wall came down. still fractured in two among world superpowers, and that is the map of Nuclear strength plant life that powered the us of a. The 1980s was an eventful term for this getting better country. Chernobyl, located here, simply north of Kiev, exploded. Showering Europe in radioactive fabric. The severity of the incident can be difficult to understand in hindsight. Iodine capsules had been disbursed across Europe. An emergency preventative medicinal drug to make certain that the thyroid gland is saturated in non-radioactive iodine, preventing it from soaking up the radioactive iodine found in nuclear fallout. where it may fester and reason most cancers. The fallout from Chernobyl spread on westerly winds throughout Europe. And the information spread even faster. The human beings of Europe have been afraid. “local people acquired 7.4 milligrays an hour of radiation Radioactive cesium is recycling in the moss because i have been wondering all day approximately this radiation radiation and not anything more The chernobyl catastrophe ought to attain a bitter harvest for the peasant farmers of Poland's far north east If the worst has already befell, the primary instances of leukemia should be performing now.” Chernobyl became given the very best ranking on the worldwide Nuclear event Scale. A 7, a primary accident with a huge launch of radioactive substances. Or, in less technical phrases, Europe turned into crop dusted in cancer dirt. [1] This event, understandably, positioned a large dent in assist for nuclear electricity across the world. however, this wasn’t the genesis of the anti-nuclear movement in Germany. In 1975, 30,000 protestors occupied the construction website online of a brand new nuclear electricity plant in south western Germany, on the border with France. In 1979, 7 years before chernobyl, two hundred,000 protestors took to the streets of Germany after the three Mile Island nuclear disaster within the america. The anti-nuclear motion in Germany become a grassroots movement, led by the humans, and pushed by fears of the very real hazard nuclear energy poses. there was a first rate amount of political pressure to begin phasing out those flora, and those protests led immediately to the advent of Germany’s inexperienced party in 1980. The Chernobyl twist of fate of 1986 actually reinforced the assist for the veggies political ideology. To section out nuclear power completely. In 1998, the green party came into energy for the first time, and the authentic cease of nuclear electricity in Germany turned into all but secured. It become determined that no new nuclear energy mills could be built in the united states of america from then ahead, and in 2002 a regulation banning new nuclear power was exceeded. With nuclear energy plant life being taken offline in advance in Germany quickly after. Angela Merkel, and her competition birthday celebration the CDU, called these deactivations “destruction of countrywide belongings” however, within the wake of the Fukushima disaster, even Merkel's competition to the anti-nuclear movement commenced to falter. Fukushima is the best different incident inside the records of nuclear energy that changed into ranked on par with Chernobyl, receiving the very best ranking feasible because of its effect at the environment and the human beings of Japan. The green birthday celebration’s strength in Germany was now at an all time high, prevailing manipulate in influential and effective states inside the south of Germany for the primary time. The anti-nuclear movement become too huge a political soccer, or perhaps nuclear football, to disregard, and Merkel’s CDU celebration joined the anti-nuclear motion. Nuclear electricity had lost this struggle, and the final nuclear energy flora in Germany commenced to flicker out. On April fifteenth 2023. The final nuclear energy plant turned into shut down. retaining on via the electricity crisis because of Russia’s invasion on Ukraine, it ultimately met its planned end. The images of protestors, celebrating the end in their 50 yr conflict on nuclear power, had been met with anger and disgust by means of seasoned-nuclear activists on line. Mirroring Merkal’s “destruction of country wide assets” outrage inside the early 2000s. How should you rejoice something that so genuinely harms Germany’s dreams of easy electricity. Shutting its nuclear centers has brought on Germany to be some distance greater depending on fossil gas than its neighbor France. that is what an average day in France looks like. Baseload is supplied by way of nuclear electricity. supplying sixty five-75% of the u . s .'s power relying on the time of day. Wind, sun and Hydro play their component too, with a small amount of flexible gas powered plants to be had to speedy ramp up when called upon. liberating just 30-40 grams of carbon dioxide in keeping with kilowatt hour generated. France is in a collection of few. An commercial massive. strength impartial. now not reliant on foreign imports of fossil fuels. And no longer simply powering its very own united states on low carbon strength, It additionally supports its personal economic system by using exporting large portions of this power to its acquaintances thru high voltage interconnections. a unprecedented instance of a country with few fossil fuel resources of its very own turning into an power exporter. Germany couldn’t be any more extraordinary. Germany emits 440 grams of carbon dioxide in line with kilowatt hour generated. due to the fact that 20-25% of Germany’s strength comes from environmentally disastrous coal. With a similarly 10-15% coming from fuel. With the remaining energy coming from wind, sun and biomass. at the same time as Germany does get hold of a big percentage of its energy from renewables, with out adequate energy storage or a nuclear base load, the u . s . a . has emerge as extremely depending on fossil fuels. This dependance have become all the extra apparent as natural fuel imports from Russia have been cut off, inflicting energy costs to skyrocket across Europe. This appears like a blatant very own intention. a ten fold boom in carbon emissions. German’s aren’t ignorant of the harm coal is having on their surroundings either. Expansions of coal mines were protested too, and the inexperienced celebration of Germany has been below fire for its vote of popularity of a variety of an open pit mine. If there has ever been an icon of industry driven climate change it has to be the large bucket excavators that roam this mine. [2] The German authorities has expressed a desire to segment out coal power quickly, however their handiest practical option to do this presently is to import even more herbal fuel. One issue desires to be recounted in this debate. both aspects of this argument in the end need the equal quit aim. clean, secure sustainable electricity. we are at the identical crew. The confrontation is on what's considered smooth and safe. This precise argument went to the ecu Parliament in 2022, where France fought for european regulation to label Nuclear strength and natural fuel to be categorized inexperienced. That 2d component will sound unusual, however herbal fuel does play a vital function in increasing renewables inside the absence of suitable strength storage. That concern desires an entire video to itself to provide an explanation for. This regulation divided the eu Union, with 328 votes for and 278 towards. The achievement of the regulation angered many, with politicians labeling it as “an odious greenwashing strive with Macron (the French President) as conductor” [3] without a doubt that is a divisive issue, and GreenPeace is presently seeking to sue the european over it, but this law paves the manner for more nations to emulate what France has achieved and invest more money into nuclear strength whilst meeting ecu mandated sustainable electricity targets. [4]. France, on the floor, feels like the gold widespread of weather policy. [5] but, permit’s take a deeper look at how this got here to be, and the demanding situations France is going through in preserving this electricity coverage. For that we want to rewind 50 years. It’s 1973. Egyptian and Syrian forces have launched a wonder assault on Israel at the Jewish vacation of Yom Kippur in an try to recapture land at the Sinai peninsula, taken from Egypt in 1967 during the Six Day warfare. Western allies of Israel rushed to aid their counter offensives, and in retaliation the union of Arab oil exporters embargoed exports to those international locations, causing oil fees worldwide to skyrocket. despite France no longer being a goal of those embargoes, it was a wakeup name for the powerful united states of america. With few electricity assets of its personal, its economy become extraordinarily liable to outdoor manipulation. Nuclear strength became the solution, and from 1974 onwards nuclear energy capability swiftly grew. cutscene of nuclear electricity flowers coming on line and potential growing. [6] Over the path of those 23 years France accelerated its nuclear capability at an outstanding price building 56 reactors in 19 distinct locations. but, new builds stopped inside the wake of Chernobyl, with handiest two new reactors beginning production within the aftermath of this disaster. Civaux 1 and a couple of, taking eight and 9 years to complete. They got here on line in 1997 and 1999. these are the youngest nuclear power vegetation in France. 24 and 26 years antique. The oldest nuclear strength plant currently is the Bugey 2 reactor. introduced on line in 1978, it's miles now 45 years old. Its older sibling, Bugey 1 began operation in 1972, and was decommissioned in 1994. It become an out of date layout, graphite moderated and cooled with carbon dioxide. It needed to be decommissioned for safety reasons. Nuclear electricity plant life commonly have a existence expectancy between 20 and forty years, which poses a trouble to the French countrywide grid, and the eu grid at big, I listed every nuclear power reactor in France in this excel sheet, and become absolutely greatly surprised when I hit the averaging feature. The common age of nuclear reactors in France is now 39 years vintage, and those aging reactors are starting to reason some predominant complications. In 2022, within the midst of an electricity disaster precipitated by using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, France’s energy utility company, the EDF, was ordered by the u . s . a .'s nuclear watchdog to look into all vegetation after a 23 millimeter deep crack became determined in a 27 mm thick cooling pipe which circulates low stage radioactive cooling water to the reactor.[7]The cracks formed as a result of thermal fatigue in a weld seam, wherein heating and cooling cycles brought on the pipe to amplify and agreement. This crack ought to have ruptured the pipe at any second, and its presence raised alarm bells for the state of nuclear strength in the usa, and next cracks were determined at other reactors. inside the aftermath of those discoveries nuclear energy output for the united states fell to a 34 12 months low while those vegetation have been taken offline for inspection and maintenance. This hassle turned into a end result of many years of below funding and mismanagement of nuclear electricity in France, and to make topics worse, the technical competencies needed to restore the issue have diminished from lifestyles in France as a result of the 30 year hole in nuclear energy investments and production. France is now rushing to invest and aid welding colleges to convey lower back this essential talent. [8] and they want it desperately. Now, simply because the Yom Kippur warfare woke France up to its power state of affairs, the war in Ukraine and these electricity outages are encouraging political movement. France has begun a frantic reinvestment cycle into nuclear strength. only some days after narrowly escaping an ousting from authorities thru an unsuccessful no-confidence vote, a brand new nuclear strength funding plan gained a landslide victory. Gaining bipartisan help, the plan will see 56 billion dollars be poured into building 6 next era EPR2 nuclear reactors. [9] the primary technology EPR began construction in north western France in 2007. Over 16 years in the past. while the average age of French nuclear reactors become just 21 years antique. It nonetheless hasn’t added any power, and is nearly five times over finances at thirteen.2 billion bucks. a miles cry from the three billion dollars and eight 12 months production time originally quoted. [10] the second one generation layout has been specifically redesigned to deal with those fee and construction problems. The layout venture of creating these nuclear reactors secure, with all of the understanding we've got received from accidents over the years, is substantial. This isn't always an remoted incident. This examine states that out of a hundred and eighty nuclear production initiatives, one hundred seventy five of them overran value estimations. Costing on average 117 percentage more than predicted, and taking 64 percentage extra time than projected. [11] The cutting-edge delay of this new reactor was because of simple welding troubles once more. while even your welds require specialized heat treatments, requiring specialised professional worker's, and stringent protection tests, it’s going to purpose headaches. The reality is, Nuclear power keeps getting extra high priced as new protection requirements are realized with every accident that happens. whilst renewable energy keeps getting inexpensive. the first of the six next era EPR2 reactors will no longer begin production until may additionally 2027. with any luck, they'll take approximately eight years to assemble at which factor the average age of nuclear reactors in France will be forty nine years vintage. getting older nuclear reactors, to mention the least, aren't perfect. Posing most important reliability problems as we've got already visible, however a doubtlessly disastrous safety threat too. France is staring down the barrel of primary electrical grid instabilities because of many years of beneath funding in nuclear energy. Nuclear electricity, whilst completed proper, is without a doubt the quality option to lessen carbon dioxide emissions that we have proper now, however the problem is, it regularly isn’t completed right. So, we need to ask ourselves. Does Germany have a point? had been they right to shut these nuclear reactors down? Or perhaps a middle ground between France and Germany became wanted. Slowly ramping down nuclear electricity at the same time as growing new renewable energy assets with the power storage had to create a strong grid Or perhaps we need to well known the fact that nuclear electricity because it stands isn't feasible long term, and we want to put money into destiny technology that make it more secure, cleaner and cheaper. The reactor nonetheless underneath creation in France, as it stands, has a price of 8 million dollars in step with Megawatt. whilst wind mills price among 1 and a pair of million greenbacks in step with megawatt, and significantly, they can be set up step by step while not having to dedicate billions to a unmarried project. In a sense, wind turbines are modular. Smaller, inexpensive, smooth to update. One destiny tech being worked on proper now goals to present nuclear electricity this identical gain. Small modular nuclear reactors aim to make smaller reactors that generate much less power, however can have additional modules added through the years to growth ability. reducing preliminary capital investment, making it simpler to replace growing older modules, and allowing the reactors to be positioned in locations now not suitable for large traditional energy vegetation. 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