{
  "id": 20121942,
  "title": "Beyond the obvious: Calculating instead of forbidding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/beyond-the-obvious-rechnen-statt-verbieten",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-15T05:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/audio/bto/beyond-the-obvious-rechnen-statt-verbieten/100269972.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch stated that no sane person builds nuclear power plants anymore, except for states that need them for plutonium production for atomic bombs. However, many countries planning or building new nuclear power plants, such as Turkey, Egypt, and Finland, do not possess atomic weapons and cite climate-friendly or reliable electricity generation as their motivation. Lesch's comments are not his first criticism of nuclear energy, and come as Germany's energy transition, started over 25 years ago, is being reevaluated. The transition has been more expensive than expected, missed climate goals, and caused supply security issues. Dr. Björn Peters and Prof. Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt argue in their book \"Zeit für Kernkraft. Schlüssel zum Wohlstand\" that nuclear power could be a solution.",
  "summary": "Nuclear power, system costs and the price of a reliable energy supply - why saving alone is not a strategy that Germany can use to secure its prosperity.",
  "key_points": [
    "Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch stated nuclear power plants should not be built today.",
    "Many countries planning nuclear plants lack atomic weapons.",
    "Motivation for nuclear energy is clean and sufficient electricity."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}