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If they hadn't shut down most nuclear reactors, some even after the war had already started, this wouldn't have happened.


EU did not shut down most of their reactors, Germany shut down a few.


Fair enough, Germany isn't all of Europe, though of course it's part of it. Still, Germany, which completed its nuclear phase-out by permanently closing its last three reactors in by 2023 even while energy prices were sky-high. I know this firsthand as I was living there, and our energy bill jumped from around 100 to 250. Belgium followed a similar path, shutting down one reactor in September 2022 and another in February 2025.




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