[Olog-hai]

The only concern the envirowackos have is with carbon “release”, and so-called brown coal has the highest. Sulfur emission can be controlled far easier.

The shutdown of nuke plants happened under Merkel; she and her government fearmongered over what happened to the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan despite the low likelihood of such a thing occurring in Germany.

[Hiddigeigei]

"The shutdown of nuke plants happened under Merkel; she and her government fearmongered over what happened to the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan despite the low likelihood of such a thing occurring in Germany."
The future should lie with thorium based nuclear power. It is much safer than the common nuclear power because thorium is a much safer material to handle and produces the uranium-233 that produces the power only as needed. The problem with the system was that it didn't produce the material needed for atomic bombs during the Cold War.