Anschalt-Konferenz Restart Conference on May 22, 2025 in Berlin, Germany

Anschalt-Konferenz Restart Conference on May 22, 2025 in Berlin, Germany

Germany is dismantling its shut‑down nuclear power plants—yet it could bring them back online at a profit. The sooner the decision is taken, the cheaper and simpler it will be. Only getting nuclear back in the mix can resolve the energy crisis. A majority of Germans support the move; it is economically sound and technically feasible.

 

Goal: Solve the energy crisis

 

Germany’s Energiewende—the country’s distinctive energy‑transition programme targeting 100 % renewable sources—has pushed the nation to the edge of an economic disaster. The culprit is high energy prices caused mainly by replacing reliable, inexpensive nuclear power with intermittent wind and solar, backed by fossil gas imports. For two decades, the subsidies and additional costs of the Energiewende—including redispatch measures, storage and reserve plants—have run to roughly €25–30 billion per year. Yet the high costs are not offset by proportionate benefits. Because fossil fuels still provide the indispensable baseload for the grid, Germany’s emissions record is dismal. Further expanding wind and solar alone, without a climate-friendly baseload complement, will deepen the existing problems. Nuclear energy can fill this gap. By reactivating our reactors, we could supply large amounts of dispatchable, clean baseload from 2026, thus expand supply and cut electricity prices.

Talks from the tracks Spark, Restart, Movie Preview, Panel and Fireside Chat:

  •  Why we are here: Germany needs clean, reliable, and economical energy – nuclear power delivers
  • Energy as the foundation of our democratic society
  • Nuclear power in the context of global ethics and environmental justice
  • A brief history of the German Atom: How the Atomausstieg paused German leadership in nuclear
  • The day after: Atomausstieg and its consequences
  • Nuclear power for a reliable grid: On the Spanish blackout
  • Prosperity within the bounds of nature: National energy economics and nuclear power
  • (Artificial) Intelligence chooses nuclear: Data center competitiveness with and without fissioning atoms
  • Partially closed, but ready to reactivate: Germany’s nuclear power plants and its vital nuclear industry
  • How to restart a nuclear power plant: Technical aspects of reactivating and upgrading our nuclear power plants
  • Social license to operate: How nuclear power becomes a success story for everyone
  • Fission: A documentary about the nuclear debate
  • More popular than you think: How popular nuclear is in Germany and abroad
  • Nuclear energy is political: Investment security for a stable and sustainable future
  • International perspectives
  • Nuclear power is cool (again): How nuclear power wins the hearts of young people, women and fighters for global climate justice
  • Economics of operating nuclear power plants
  • Insurance for nuclear power: How to insure your nuclear power plant with the German Nuclear Reactor Insurance Group
  • Reactivation of nuclear power plants – frameworks of nuclear law and nuclear regulation
  • Philantrophy goes ecomodernist: How the right kind of philanthropy can guide us on a path that actually works
  • The best jobs in energy: How we will staff nuclear plants, and why people love working there.
  • The best handled waste in the world: Options for handling spent nuclear fuel
  • Why I hugged a nuclear waste container and what happened afterwards
  • Social power: Lessons from building an effective nuclear movement in Canada
  • The political future for nuclear: How nuclear power will become a long term part of German energy politics

Name: Nuklearia e. V.
Website: https://nuklearia.de/
Address: Nuklearia e. V., Bergstraße 14, 44339 Dortmund

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