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| Germans demand nuclear plant closures |
| 2011-04-28 |
| [Iran Press TV] Tens of thousands of protesters in Germany have gathered near twelve of the country's nuclear plants, demanding an end to the use of nuclear power. Germany being as prone to earthquakes and tsunamis as it is I'd certainly expect them to. Plus they've got lotsa other energy sources to replace them with. On Monday, over 120,000 protesters met at 12 of the country's 17 nuclear plants, calling for German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's government to immediately close all plants, AP reported. The protesters brought the officials' attention to the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident in Ukraine, which occurred 25 year ago, as well as the Fukushima power plant incident in Japan last March. According to the protest organizer, Peter Dickel, the German state of Lower Saxony has witnessed some of the country's greatest demonstrations with over 20,000 individuals participating. Some 17,000 protesters turned out at the Krummel nuclear plant in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, while over 15,000 others congregated near the Grafenrheinfeld plant in Bavaria. Calls for an end to NATO's presence in Afghanistan were also among the anti-nuclear slogans in the nation-wide demonstrations. The protests came after Merkel imposed a moratorium on the construction of new nuclear plants last month. Following the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan, seven of the country's oldest plants have been temporarily shut. The security levels of the remaining 10 plants are currently being monitored. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 "Germans demand nuclear plant closures " So, shut them down. Right now. There'll be blackouts, of course, because they'll no longer have enough power for the country, and the price of electricity will necessarily skyrocket overnight, but the protesters will get their wish. And isn't that the most important thing? And no, no /sarc off. There was never any /sarc on. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-04-28 19:16 |
| #3 Yes the plant in Japan is unsafe. But that doesn't make ALL nuke plants unsafe. This is like equation all air travel unsafe because of one crash. I would point out that the U.S. Navy has been operating nuclear subs and aircraft carriers for decades without a major incident. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2011-04-28 19:02 |
| #2 Sorry to pick nits, Joe, but the capital was moved from Bonn back to Berlin in the 1990s. You'd think these people have better things to do. Dependence on Russian natural gas, yeah, good idea. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-04-28 08:30 |
| #1 I don't see how this effort could succeed in Germany unless: > BONN is just playing to popular mainstream whims, but in reality expects to restart Germany's Nucplants widin a couple or few years time. > MORE LIKLEY, BONN HOPES TO SAVE $$$, IMPROVE ECON BY IMPORTING ENERGY + USING BUDGET BUNDESMARKS ELSEWHERE, vee France + espec new BFF, econ-troubled RUSSIA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-28 01:10 |