A Fukushima on the Hudson?: The Growing Dangers of Indian Point

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22. There's that active imagination again

It's far more rational to say that the effect of the CPP is that they won't remove the nuclear plant, because they can't cut fossil generation and offset nuclear generation at the same time.

To say that it somehow can't be done is as false as the claim you make about Germany.

There's nothing false about it. Virtually all of the progress that they've made in reducing emissions since 2009 has been undone by their course reversal on nuclear power (that is... their emissions in 2015 were virtually identical to 2009). They were on track to hit their 2020 emissions targets - and now they aren't. And they still have half of their nuclear power yet to shut down.

Hardly any of their new renewables generation capacity was added in response to the nuclear phaseout... it was supposed to be replacing fossil generation.

Q.E.D.