2025-05-22
The EU has been flirting with nuclear power for years - but mighty Germany has been determinedly anti nuclear ever since the tsunami washed into Fukushima.
But since the Putin-Trump telephone call it seems that it has begun to dawn, even on German politicians, that the Dunkelflaute may not have what it takes to resurrect German industry in recreating the necessary armaments industries to face up to the challenge from the East.
All of which is a welcome if unexpected outbreak of good sense (even if for all the wrong reasons) since if both Germany and France support nuclear then that's probably enough to sway the rest of the EU block.
And it leaves Ed Milliband in an even more lonely outpost than he is already.
The savings will be huge, since if nuclear can replace windmills and sun-farms then reliable base-load will return to the grid and the immense costs of attempting to redesign the grid to operate reliably from multiple unreliable power sources strewn around the country wherever wind and planning systems permit, will be vastly reduced; as will the need to over-provide power sources to cover the gaps in the intermittent output of wind farms etc, as will the time required to redesign and re-engineer the grid for safe and reliable nuclear.
Nor will there be any need to replace traditional farms with power-farms and thereby alienate the farmers who feed us along with most of the population who value our traditional countryside.
It's a no-brainer to anybody, except apparently to a politician.
