Posted on 01/01/2022 10:59:46 AM PST by Olog-hai
Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power.
The decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy was first taken by the center-left government of Gerhard Schroeder in 2002. His successor, Angela Merkel, reversed her decision to extend the lifetime of Germany’s nuclear plants in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan and set 2022 as the final deadline for shutting them down.
The three reactors now being shuttered were first powered up in the mid-1980s. Together they provided electricity to millions of German households for almost four decades.
One of the plants — Brokdorf, located 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Hamburg on the Elbe River — became a particular focus of anti-nuclear protests that were fueled by the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe in the Soviet Union.
The other two plants are Grohnde, 40 kilometers south of Hannover, and Gundremmingen, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Munich.
Some in Germany have called for the decision on ending the use of nuclear power to be reconsidered because the power plants already in operation produce relatively little carbon dioxide. Advocates of atomic energy argue that it can help Germany meet its climate targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …
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Yes. Places with high natural radiation (Ramsar in Iran holds the record) are known health spas, with lower cancer occurrences. Place with low natural radiation are actually having more cancers.
It is speculated that radiation at certain levels is actually good for you!
The biggest scientific problem with evaluating radiation exposure effects is that these are by nature statistical and data are hard to obtain.
The Hiroshima data are still the best we have, but those people got “Really big doses”, with only 5% detrimental effects. Most others got a lot less. Very hard to get anything significant from that.
The official science here still clings to the linear model, which seems to be wrong!
There’ll now be a run on candles and kerosene.
Good on them.
Now freeze, suckers.
Not all radiation is ionizing radiation. Even in Ramsar, you have a low chance of getting anywhere near a deadly dose of ionizing radiation; what’s measured there is “background radiation”, which includes microwaves, radio waves, cosmic radiation, presence of radon and radioactive isotopes of thorium, etc. The studies there are deceptive, claiming that the residents somehow get a “chronic dose” of (implying) ionizing radiation yearly.
thoughts
external radiation Vs. ingested
everything is poisonous, dose dependent
Maybe they can buy power from the French nuclear plants
Germany will have to reopen the Ruhr coal mines…or freeze…
Then they must have really loved Stalingrad.
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Yes they loved it so much, over 240,000 stayed behind to enjoy the following winters.
Sehr dumm. Sehr sehr dumm!
Agreed. They must love being under Russia's thumb.
Vestas and especially Putin, thank the German people. The Germans just love punishing themselves.
What is your native tongue (language)?
Just take a Geiger counter around bananas ;^)
And more money for Hunter Biden from Gazprom for expanding Russian energy market penetration in the western EU...
This is the country that was stupid enough to believe that Hitler was their salvation. The stupid is still strong in Germany.
electricity
There is quite a bit of bait-and-switch going on here. By using CO2 production as their metric they've eliminated one of Germany's traditional sources of renewable energy, wood. So they're trying to get out of the non-combustion arena in nuclear energy and the combustion arena in coal, oil, natural gas, and wood - all simultaneously and without offsetting alternate methods of energy production either in place or reasonably to be expected in the near term. As usual the people making the decisions will suffer least and last. I pity the German middle class.
It is going to be a cold and dark in many German homes this winter.
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