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Source is a really stupid blog - total about 34000 hits.
Cites 20,000 dead per year due to coal. Cites coal plants emit 100 times more radiation than nuclear.
Writer has no technical knowledge nor ability to put facts in context to reality.
Cites Westinghouse reactors “safe” cause they use gravity rather than electricity to shut down. First off, use of gravity isn’t new - ref. origin of the term reactor SCRAM. Second, gravity may always be there but that doesn’t help when the absorber tubes are buckled - duh.

Talk about being careful what you wish for: part of the problem with nuclear power is that the protests and moratoria on new licenses in the seventies threw a wrench into the works of the kind of technical progress a thriving industry would create. Now one of the most engineering-savvy countries in the world is turning its back on the only efficient “carbon neutral” energy source we have.

The environmentalists aren’t anti- this or that form of energy. They are opposed to our energy use in general — you constantly see comparisons in their reportage between how much energy the average American uses compared to the average third worlder, as if there were someting immoral about our very lifestyle and our ability to maintain it.

Germany giving up its technological superiority to coddle the leftists is like Germany risking its financial stability to prop up the irresponsible countries of the Euro zone. It seems the cost to the Germans of becoming “good Europeans” has been having their collective balls cut off.