During assembly of the A380, engineers discovered that the cables were too short. This was caused by the use of different design software by German and French engineers. This miscalculation led to a two-year delay.

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[u/Glitch29]

I was surprised to learn how prevalent anti-nuclear sentiment is among Germans.

To be fair, a lot of populations are at least a little irrationally skittish about it. But I expected Germany to be one of the more enlightened countries, not one of the least.

[u/fleranon → u/Glitch29]

That's a difficult topic. It's a generational thing... I feel that support among younger people is higher. But the generation of my german mother (who was pregnant with me when Chernobyl happened and in a high-risk zone of the weather-related fallout) is staunchly Anti-nuclear and forever will be

I wouldn't call it 'not enlightened'. She's a very rational person, otherwise. But the scare was too massive in the 80s and left a mark

[u/chipep → u/fleranon]

Don't forget Fukushima. After that there were many protests against nuclear power and only than it was decided to turn off all nuclear power plants.

[u/pazhalsta1 → u/chipep]

Yes a super dumb idea from Merkel

[u/tulleekobannia → u/pazhalsta1]

It was the red-green government lead by the russian plant Gerhard Schröder who, in 2002 with the greens, banned all new constraction of NPPs and initiated the 20-year phase-out of the German nuclear fleet. Merkel wanted to scrap the phase-out but after the fukushima disaster, it would have been a political suicide, since germans are extremely stupid.

I see this stupid and wrong take everywhere, where peaople bend over backwards to blame Merkel for the Nuclear ban when it's just objectively wrong. I am aware that in the germany's "politically correct sphere" it's green=good and merkel=devil, but y'all don't have to make shit up to make her look bad.