Germany shut down its last nuclear power plants in 2023. That decision removed 4 gigawatts of reliable, low-cost baseload electricity. The plants were operational, and fully paid for. Worse still, there was no replacement capacity ready. Germany turned to intermittent wind and solar backed by gas, imports and emergency coal restarts. The obvious consequences followed. Electricity prices surged, grid reliability weakened, and fossil fuel use actually increased. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now just admitted the shutdown was a strategic mistake, calling Germany's energy transition the most expensive in the world. A reckless bending to extreme green ideology traded reliability and prosperity for optics. Working nuclear plants were destroyed. And for what?