> And you can't blame "capitalism" for Germany ditching nuclear to burn more coal.

The German me is wondering where you got that nonsense from; our use of coal for electricity has gradually been going down for the last two decades at least, from ca. 46% in 2007 to about 23% in 2025; and we are currently aiming to totally phase out coal in the electricity sector by 2038.

Would it have been better from a climate perspective to phase out coal first, and only then nuclear? Probably yes. But there were many other factors at play, too.

BTW; you can't blame capitalism for Germany starting to go nuclear either, overall it was probably one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity we had, with lots of the costs hidden. It was only in the final years, with the plants fully written off already, with maintenance minimized knowing that the plants would be shut down soon and so would never need to pass another re-certification cycle, etc. that nuclear electricity looked cheap when only taking the current costs per kWh into account.