<story><title>Germany commits €100B to defense spending</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/germany-commits-100-billion-to-defense-spending/a-60933724</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belter</author><text>Or revert the decision to phase out nuclear power.</text></item><item><author>jnsaff2</author><text>How about invest 100 billion on renewables to get independence from russian gas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jon_Lowtek</author><text>Germany has no long term storage for nuclear waste, it is sending 12.000 tons of depleted uranium-hexafluoride from its reprocessing plant in Gronau to a plant in Novouralsk, Russia, where its turned into uranium-oxide for usage in MOX fuel for fast breeders sometime in the future. Until then it is stored above ground, hoping the containment doesn&amp;#x27;t leak dust clouds. And those are the few parts of the problem that can be reused. For the vast majority of radioactive and contaminated waste, there is no such solution: there is no reprocessing decades old contaminated reactor parts that are replaced due to old age and material fatigue. The burial site in Asse turned into a disaster and the waste stored there is being digged up again, costing billions. Gorleben is on hold since it was build under the assumptions that lead to the Asse problem, Konrad is not even finished and already booked out, without even taking all of the waste that currently exists. So most radioactive, irradiated or contaminated waste is stored in &amp;quot;temporary containment&amp;quot; with no long term plan. Nuclear power is neither clean nor cheap: its lobbyists are just very good at pushing externalities toward tax payers and future generations. American nuclear industry is trying to convince people that their ocean dumping sites are safe and that the contamination of the Savannah river or the Columbia river are not a problem. Note that these are the same kind of people that argued in favor of leaded gasoline, fracking gas infused tap water and smoking tobacco. Nuclear waste is not a solved problem. And if you look at the other side of the supply chain, uranium mining is even worse. The mines in germany are closed, and most of what was produced there over decades was sold to the SU and USA anyway. Handling millions of tons of uranium trailings and irradiated pumping, mining and milling equipment is left as a problem for future generations. You think the selling price for yellow cake pays for these problems in advance? Think again.</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany commits €100B to defense spending</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/germany-commits-100-billion-to-defense-spending/a-60933724</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belter</author><text>Or revert the decision to phase out nuclear power.</text></item><item><author>jnsaff2</author><text>How about invest 100 billion on renewables to get independence from russian gas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ascar</author><text>While I would appreciate that, this would be political suicide for the Green party involved in the coalition. While they want a lot less co2 they are also very much anti-fission.</text></comment>