> Which doesn't matter at all in the case of Germany.
I don't understand what you are trying to suggest here.
Do you think German politicians never make errors of judgement? That they can't be afraid of things the general public is afraid of, nor caught up in the excitement of things the public can be inspired by?
The perception in the past in Germany was that nuclear fission was dangerous, and I think it may still be seen as such. All the proponents of fusion emphasise how much safer it is in various ways including that it can't have a meltdown.
I'm of the opinion that the correct time to deploy nuclear power was any time before the early 2010s, as that was roughly when the time taken to make a new reactor combined with the rate of improvements to renewables to swing the balance from nuclear to renewables. But that's just about cost, diversity is also a useful thing in its own right, as (unfortunately) is the ability to quickly develop nuclear weapons.
(A working fusion reactor necessarily helps with making nuclear weapons, just run it in a neutron-emitting mode (IIRC always easier than aneutronic) and use those neutrons to transmute some natural uranium into plutonium, then draw the rest of the owl).
And making huge decisions based on nothing but that phobia. Tragic.
> I'm of the opinion that the correct time to deploy nuclear power was any time before the early 2010s,
The best time to build new nuclear was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Renewables are not sufficient and building out nuclear is much, much quicker and cheaper than the failed German Energiewende, even now.
I don't understand what you are trying to suggest here.
Do you think German politicians never make errors of judgement? That they can't be afraid of things the general public is afraid of, nor caught up in the excitement of things the public can be inspired by?
The perception in the past in Germany was that nuclear fission was dangerous, and I think it may still be seen as such. All the proponents of fusion emphasise how much safer it is in various ways including that it can't have a meltdown.
I'm of the opinion that the correct time to deploy nuclear power was any time before the early 2010s, as that was roughly when the time taken to make a new reactor combined with the rate of improvements to renewables to swing the balance from nuclear to renewables. But that's just about cost, diversity is also a useful thing in its own right, as (unfortunately) is the ability to quickly develop nuclear weapons.
(A working fusion reactor necessarily helps with making nuclear weapons, just run it in a neutron-emitting mode (IIRC always easier than aneutronic) and use those neutrons to transmute some natural uranium into plutonium, then draw the rest of the owl).