Germany shuts down half of its 6 remaining
nuclear plants
Associated Press,
by
Frank Jordon
Original Article
Posted By: IowaDad,
12/31/2021 8:56:29 AM
BERLIN — Germany on Friday is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power. The decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy was first taken by the center-left government of Gerhard Schroeder in 2002. His successor, Angela Merkel, reversed her decision to extend the lifetime of Germany’s nuclear plants in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan and set 2022 as the final deadline for shutting them down.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/31/2021 9:19:29 AM (No. 1024035)
OP is correct. This is Stupid. They will be under the boot of the Russian Bear. Germany should be building more, not shutting them down. A nasty, cold winter could really hurt older people when their heating bill skyrockets.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
red1066 12/31/2021 9:19:37 AM (No. 1024037)
The Fukushima power plant failure was caused an earthquake. I don't recall Germany being in an earthquake zone or ever having an earthquake. To use the failure of Fukushima as reason to close a power plant is just stupid. As for the government of Germany being center left, show me the evidence of any center thinking in this decision.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
RCFLyer98 12/31/2021 9:32:33 AM (No. 1024064)
Nuclear energy is THE answer to the world's energy needs. It's clean, it's relatively cheap, it's efficient, and it is relatively safe, as safe as anything human can produce. As stated by poster, about 70 people have been killed by nuclear energy production, which includes Chernobyl; We do not hear of the deaths of those caused by traditional or green energy production. I would guess it's much, much higher. It's amazing how clear the subject is, but for the blindness of the leftist loonies.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
caddyjak 12/31/2021 9:49:08 AM (No. 1024093)
First it was unregulated Muslim immigrants. Now it will be those fifteen ton wind chasers. Where is Adolph when we really need him?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/31/2021 9:51:41 AM (No. 1024100)
Germany reverses the industrial revolution.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Right Time 12/31/2021 9:54:02 AM (No. 1024101)
WHAT A RELIEF!!!
Frau Merkel was the one who actually pushed for the shutdown of Germany's nuclear plants as a reaction to the Fukushima nuclear plant accident in Japan. Shutting down Germany's nuclear plants will protect them from damage, should a tsunami ever travel inland in the European continent and into landlocked Germany.
Seriously stupid.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TLCary 12/31/2021 9:57:23 AM (No. 1024108)
Ever read Anthem by Any Rand? Socialism: where peasants can be peasants and worship the state without all the overhead of technology. But they will all be exactly the same, so rejoice.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
paral04 12/31/2021 10:00:58 AM (No. 1024115)
What an idiot. Germany's climate will not support solar power unless they paper the place with panels. Windmills kill the birds which we need to spread seeds. Whoever gave this brilliant advice needs to be shot.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 12/31/2021 10:06:33 AM (No. 1024126)
I loved Germany while there in the military. So many nice forests, and so much wood to burn.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
downnout 12/31/2021 10:11:57 AM (No. 1024132)
It’s hard to generate electricity from solar panels when the panels are covered in snow….
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/31/2021 10:17:32 AM (No. 1024144)
It's somewhat comforting to see that we aren't the only country in the world being led by half-wits and buffoons.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
davew 12/31/2021 10:25:19 AM (No. 1024162)
Wind and solar energy production requires huge amounts of land that could be better used for agriculture or biomass preservation. Solar panels have a very limited life and produce mountains of waste contaminated with heavy metals including lead. Although the sun produces vast amounts of energy, it is too dilute and intermittent across the globe to be a practical alternative to fossil or nuclear. The nuclear waste arguement is also a canard. Here is information from the World Nuclear Association website:
Nuclear fuel is very energy dense, so very little of it is required to produce immense amounts of electricity – especially when compared to other energy sources. As a result, a correspondingly small amount of waste is produced. On average, the waste from a reactor supplying a person’s electricity needs for a year would be about the size of a brick. Only 5 grams of this is high-level waste – about the same weight as a sheet of paper. The generation of electricity from a typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear power station, which would supply the needs of more than a million people, produces only three cubic metres of vitrified high-level waste per year, if the used fuel is recycled. In comparison, a 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power station produces approximately 300,000 tonnes of ash and more than 6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, every year.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 12/31/2021 11:21:55 AM (No. 1024225)
LOL! In the USA Ted Kennedy has killed more people than nuclear power.
How many people died when a 9.0 Richter earthquake and 50 ft tsunami damaged Fukishima and three first generation (oldest) nuclear reactors melted down? ZERO. And at Fukishima, how many people, including the "suicide squad" who remained on site the entire time working to cool the 'spent' fuel assemblies in their storage pools exceeded their annual allowable safe radiation exposure? None.
Chernobyl, where the crazy Soviet reactor design had NO containment system, is the only place where deaths have occurred due to a nuclear reactor accident.
In KC about 15 years ago, everyone on site at a medium sized natural gas fired conventional power station was killed when they had a massive natural gas explosion. I forget the number but something like 6 or 8 killed. Barely a ripple in the national news. Yet anywhere around the world a nuke plant accident is weeks of major news stories -- even without a single death or serious injury.
Anti-nuclear fear is a major commitment by leftists, the media and the eco-crazies.
I don't believe that carbon dioxide is any sort of a problem at all, but for the eco-crazies who do.....here's your fix for 'no carbon', yet they reject it entirely.
They want us all freezing in the dark, pretending that solar and windmills will power everything, and they won't.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 12/31/2021 11:31:55 AM (No. 1024240)
Going to be a LOT of cold Germans this year...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
HPmatt 12/31/2021 11:35:43 AM (No. 1024246)
I watched a DW youtube 20 minute report on this - the Greens that have been protesting nuclear power for 40 years since the plant was built, are now so happy. They never addressed the cost per kWh for nuclear vs wind & solar, nor what this would do to the electric PRICE germans would be paying. They did obliquely say they would expand coal power production to make up the loss of capacity...and in 2044 would have additional renewable fuels to 'fill the gap'...
I expect Russia to own Germany in the next decade or two....don't need to fire a shot. Merkel will have re-created her beloved East Germany but now for all of Europe.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
HPmatt 12/31/2021 11:38:01 AM (No. 1024251)
DW report was saying France is re-starting building nukes - sure the plan to sell it to the Germans....
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 12/31/2021 11:40:54 AM (No. 1024254)
considering that one of the rocks the Third Reich cashed on was trying to capture the caucus oil fields to provide fuel to continue the war, this probably means france and poland can rest easy except when the sun shines
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/31/2021 12:33:42 PM (No. 1024303)
No more nukes! What could possibly go wrong?
Mark my word, Germany will be buying electricity from 80% Nuclear powered France before long. Germans are smarter than this, but their former East German politicians are disasters and purposefully attempting to destroy their economy.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/31/2021 2:07:27 PM (No. 1024408)
Exactly in line with the UN Agenda 2030. If you haven't heard of it, look it up and be prepared for a shock. Prepare for electrical outages rolling brownouts and the big push for "sustainable" energy sources. Get ready for wind farms and solar farms all across the country and a definite increase in the cost of electricity.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
walcb 12/31/2021 2:43:54 PM (No. 1024448)
Sounds like a plan. Cut down all the trees to make room for solar panels in a northern latitude.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/31/2021 2:55:51 PM (No. 1024453)
The future United States.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
gorzabozo 12/31/2021 8:07:07 PM (No. 1024703)
The biggest problem with Nuclear Power is .... human nature.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
or gate 12/31/2021 8:45:25 PM (No. 1024723)
Germans used to be smart.
Fire up the COAL fired power plants..................................
To keep the brain dead happy.
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Very silly! Nuclear power over 70 years has been by far the safest, most reliable, cheapest and least polluting power available. Nuclear power has caused the deaths of about 70 people over this time, including the Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima, a death toll vastly below that of coal. Germany will become a vassal state of Russia in order to heat its home!