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Mar 7 • 9 tweets • 6 min read

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🇪🇺 solidarity: climate action to prevent shutdown of #lowcarbon energy sources ✊⚛️🌍

Last Saturday, we opposed, together with @Nuklearia & @Moms4G, the antinuclear activists demonstrating in front of the #Isar #nuclear power plant 🇩🇪

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Here is a video that can help you get a glimpse of our event 🎷📺▶️:

#KernkraftBleibt #KernkraftGewinnt #mobilisation #climateaction #StimmenderKernenergie

#Isar2 has been one of the most productive nuclear reactors in the world over the past decade. It is a modern #Konvoi type reactor, with a power of 1475 MW, and originally designed to operate for 80 years.

#Isar2 means every year:
➡️ 10 to 12 TWh of sovereign electrical #energy
➡️ 3.5 million homes supplied with low-carbon electricity
➡️ 10 million tonnes of #CO2 avoided

This reactor connected to the grid in 1988 will be stopped prematurely in April, after merely 35 years of operation.

It does not have the value of a representative survey, but we heard from the few locals that they’d like the power plant to continue to operate.

As for the antis who came to demonstrate, it is clear that even though we disagree, dialogue is possible, and even easier and more peaceful than in France.

The last three German nuclear reactors still in operation #Isar2 #Neckarwestheim2 #Emsland are among the most powerful and reliable in the world. They provide Germany and Europe with a low-carbon, safe and reliable power supply.

Yet nuclear power plants are still doomed to be shut down soon, while 36% of 🇩🇪 electricity is still produced by burning coal (data for 2021 by Ember Climate). And +4200 people die prematurely each year in Germany due to air pollution caused by coal-fired power plants.

Here's an article by journalists who came to cover the rally of antis, and were surprised to find us there: idowa.de/inhalt.kernkra…

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