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  • German nuclear energy phase-out begins with first plant closure

    11/14/2003 8:03:08 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 19 replies · 251+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 11/14/03 | AFP - Berlin
    BERLIN (AFP) - Germany disconnected the first of 19 nuclear power plants due to be shut down, two years after deciding to abandon atomic energy, in a highly symbolic move for environmental activists. "The reactor is shut down," a spokesman for the E.ON energy company announced Friday just after the plant was officially taken off Germany's electrical grid at around 8:30 am (0730 GMT). No special buttons were pushed or cables cut at the Stade plant near the northern port city of Hamburg. "It was just like for a routine maintenance check," the spokesman said. Stade was brought into service...