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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hydro electric is the best.
Also a very good solution, except the libs are more worried about a salmon.
Hmmmm...wasn’t the Obama administration hellbent on harming America every step of the way? In a similar fashion?
Just a question...because there seem to be significant similarities between both cases. Or am I very wrong?
What are we missing here? While I have doubts about election integrity here in the United States, your observations in Europe lead me to believe that “free and fair elections” might not fix anything anywhere.
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I think it works better in the US before the voters are different. More Americans believe in having a right to self defense than Europeans.
The main problem in every Democracy is that the first priority of voters is not separating government from money and stopping it from printing money. I think it’s a self-correcting problem.
is that you, LJNS?
No idea who that is. I've been posting under this name since 2001.
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