German poll: Majority for return to nuclear energy – DW – 04/04/2025
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Some 55% of Germans favor a reversal of nuclear policy according to a marketing poll. The issue has been a point of contention between parties seeking to form a coalition government.

Summary

A new Innofact poll shows 55% of Germans support returning to nuclear power, a divisive issue influencing coalition talks between the CDU/CSU and SPD.

While 36% oppose the shift, support is strongest among men and in southern and eastern Germany.

About 22% favor restarting recently closed reactors; 32% support building new ones.

Despite nuclear support, 57% still back investment in renewables. The CDU/CSU is exploring feasibility, but the SPD and Greens remain firmly against reversing the nuclear phase-out, citing stability and past policy shifts.

  • saimen@feddit.orgEnglish
    88·
    22 hours ago

    How is a nuclear meltdown not the fault of nuclear power? Of course you can prevent it by being super careful and stuff, but it is inherent to nuclear power that it is super dangerous. What is the worst that can happen with a wind turbine? It falls, that’s it.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      22·
      6 hours ago

      Because the shit they were using in the Fukushima plants was so old that it might as well be completely different technology. Same with Chernobyl.

      People are referencing shit that does not even apply to modern nuclear power.

    • luce [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      113·
      2 hours ago

      if we were to either replace all power on earth with nuclear, or replace all power on earth with wind, more people would die from- idk, falling out of wind turbines- then from deaths due to nuclear.

      Fukushima had a fucking earthquake and a tsunami thrown at it, AND the company which made it cut corners. It was still, much, much less bad than it could have been and the reactor still partially withstood a lot of damage.

      In the United States at least (and i assume the rest of the world) nuclear energy is so overegulated that many reactors can have meltdowns without spelling disaster for the nearby area. Nuclear caskets (used to transport and store wastes) can withstand fucking missle strikes.

      Im not going to pretend that there arent genuine issues with nuclear, such as cost and construction time(*partially caused by the overegulation), but genuine nuclear disaster has only ever resulted from the worst of human decisions combined with the worst of circumstances. Do i trust humans not to make shitty mistakes? No, not with all this overegulation, but still, even counting Fukushima and Chernobyl, more people die from wind (and especially fossil fuels) then nuclear per terawatt of electricity production.

      • lumony@lemmings.worldEnglish
        41·
        7 hours ago

        Thank you for bringing some light to these people living in the dark.

        I swear, some people see an influencer say “nuclear is actually really bad!” and then just take it and run.

        Really puts into perspective how smart the average person in these days. They’re just trying to look good in front of their peers.