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Germany closes half its remaining nuclear power plants |
2022-01-01 |
[DW] The shutdowns of three plants take place as Europa ![]() faces one of its worst-ever energy crises and as support for nuclear as a low carbon energy is, once again, on the rise. The decommissioning process will take two decades and cost €1.1 billion ($1.25 billion) per plant. This means that in 2022, Germany will have just three nuclear power plants — in the states of Bavaria, Baden-Wurttemberg and Lower Saxony. They are due to cease production in exactly a year's time, cutting nuclear energy output by around four gigawatts — equivalent to the power produced by 1,000 wind turbines. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... two plants that produce fuel and fuel elements for export may continue to operate. The closures will officially end the nuclear phase-out for domestic energy production started under former German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... Merkel's government made the decision in 2011 after the accident at the Fukushima atomic power plant in Japan. An earthquake and tsunami destroyed the coastal plant in the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years earlier. Q: What’s the opposite of resilience? A: Bad luck. |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#8 With all that free natural gas from Russia that will never get cut off. Right. |
Posted by: Woodrow 2022-01-01 15:11 |
#7 Back to candles |
Posted by: KBK 2022-01-01 12:45 |
#6 Don't be such whiners! Germans made it through the last Ice Age without nuclear power. The ones that didn't go extinct, I mean. |
Posted by: SteveS 2022-01-01 12:38 |
#5 Good news for Vlad. |
Posted by: Dale 2022-01-01 12:38 |
#4 Enjoy the cold and being held hostage to those that supply the heating carbon fuel to you. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2022-01-01 12:28 |
#3 Vlad sends his thanks. |
Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426 2022-01-01 11:46 |
#2 Another "smarter than you dumb yanks" cohort. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-01 10:39 |
#1 "Let ' |
Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-01 10:38 |