Watching the 2011 events at the sparked fears that the same could happen in the Baltic.
First up, Turkey's Andalou Agency, January 16:
Conservative leader criticizes previous governments for creating world's costliest energy transition
.....MOREGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called Berlin’s exit from nuclear energy a "serious strategic mistake" and criticized previous governments for hastily shutting down the country's last atomic reactors.
Speaking at a business conference in Saxony-Anhalt late Wednesday, Merz directed sharp criticism at the energy policies of his predecessors, including former Chancellor Angela Merkel, for creating the world's costliest energy transition.
"It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy," Merz said. "If you were going to do it, you should have at least kept the last remaining nuclear power plants in Germany on the grid three years ago, so that we would have had the same electricity generation capacity.”
He added: "We're now making the most expensive energy transition in the entire world. I don't know of a second country that makes it as difficult and as expensive for itself as Germany does. We set ourselves a goal that we now have to correct, but we simply don't have enough energy generation capacity.”....
*After the 9.1 magnitude 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was followed by a 40.5 meter (133 ft) tsunami, we saw this: "Typhoon Approaching Nuclear Plant Hit by Earthquake, Tsunami".Is it any wonder that Germany accelerated the dismantling of their entire nuclear power program? The risk of a Baltic earthquake-tsunami-typhoon triple whammy, though vanishingly small, is not zero. You can't be too careful. Precautionary Principle and all that.
See also the All Saints Day 1755 earthquake, tsunami and fire that devastated Lisbon.
Of course it wasn't All Saints Day across the water in Morocco, it was 27 Muharram 1169.
—July 20, 2024 - The Events At Pompeii In 79 AD Were Worse Than Was Thought
And at Defense News, January 15 (emphasis in original):
Merz Calls Germany’s Nuclear Exit A Costly Mistake As Energy Debate Reignites
...When And How Germany Shut Down Nuclear Power
Germany’s nuclear phase-out began in March 2011, immediately after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. In a dramatic policy reversal, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would accelerate its nuclear exit, despite having previously extended reactor lifetimes.
Eight reactors were shut down immediately in 2011, while the remaining plants were placed on a fixed closure timetable. The final three reactors — Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2 — were permanently switched off on 15 April 2023, bringing an end to more than 60 years of nuclear electricity generation in Germany.
The decision was a central pillar of the Energiewende, Germany’s long-term strategy to shift toward renewable energy, cut emissions and move away from both nuclear and fossil fuels....
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Related, December 11, 2025 - Risk: "Tsunami threats are greatly underestimated in current models, new research shows" (not underestimated in Germany or North Dakota)
