Posted on 04/11/2023 5:34:50 AM PDT by McGruff
Germany will shut down its three remaining nuclear plants on Saturday, betting that it can fulfil its green ambitions without atomic power despite the energy crisis caused by the Ukraine war.
The cloud of white steam that has risen since 1989 over the river in Neckarwestheim, near Stuttgart, will soon be a distant memory, as will the Isar 2 complex in Bavaria and the Emsland plant in the north.
At a time when many Western countries are ramping up nuclear power in their transition to greener energy sources, Europe’s biggest economy is resolutely sticking to its plans — though not everyone is in agreement.
Germany has been looking to phase out nuclear power since 2002, but the decision was accelerated by former chancellor Angela Merkel in 2011 after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Fukushima showed that “even in a high-tech country like Japan, the risks of nuclear energy cannot be safely controlled”, Merkel said at the time.
The exit decision was popular in a country with a powerful anti-nuclear movement fuelled by fears of Cold War conflict and disasters such as Chernobyl.
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This should turn out well.
Sign “Will the last one out of the room please turn off the lights”
Sign “Will the last one out of the room please turn off the lights”
Committing economic suicide for a false religion.
The second most powerful guy in the German government is a confirmed Green Party crackpot. He harmonizes well with the Merkel-led drive toward national suicide. Scholz apparently is unable to control these events.
This probably is more an indication that Germany knows it cannot keep its industrial plant running anyway since the Loss of Ukraine means its power hungry industrial plants all have to be outsourced to another country.
Note: Nuclear energy is Green. It’s not a Green thing. It’s a control thing.
German fools.
The dirty little secret is that they don’t want EVs to work, they just want to get rid of private transportation for the non-elites.
Dummkopfs
“Will the last one out of the room please turn off the lights”
There may be plenty of folks still in the room when the lights go out.
Idiots.
I guess they plan on having enough wind, solar and outside country nuclear/coal/ng generated power.
Idiots
I think that this is good. Let the Krauts be hot in the summer, and cold in the winter. What did that famous Kraut, whats-his-name, say - that which does not kill you, makes you smarter, or something like that?
The Delusional marching toward the Utopian Future.
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The warm glow they get from protecting Mother Gaia makes any other source of warmth unnecessary.
yep
shut up and get on the bus
Start shoveling the coal...........
This probably is more an indication that Germany knows it cannot keep its industrial plant running anyway since the Loss of Ukraine ….
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Why is it the collective West ( including the US) so intent on committing suicide? Reminds me of Jimmy Jones mass joint suicide event in Guyana.
Reads the same today, ” Biden and the collective West leads millions of their followers in a mass murder- suicide pact……”
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