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Industry Voice: The Cost of Virtue: How Germany’s Nuclear Exit Undermined Its Climate Leadership

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Germany celebrated the shutdown of its last nuclear reactors in April 2023 as a moral victory. The Atomausstieg - or nuclear exit - was framed as a triumph of environmental responsibility: proof that a modern industrial nation could renounce 'dangerous' technologies and lead the world toward a cleaner future. A new analysis suggests the opposite happened.

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