State elections behind Merkel’s decision to halt 7 of Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors

Wednesday, March 16th 2011 - 01:23 UTC

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is backtracking on nuclear power as the atomic emergency in Japan becomes an issue in state-election campaigns. Merkel’s decision to halt seven of Germany’s 17 reactors includes two in Baden-Wuerttemberg, where her party is battling to retain its 59-year-hold on the state in a March 27 vote. Read full article

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Rhaurie-Craughwell
Aye right and how many 8.9 earthquakes with 30 foot high Tsunami's has Germany suffered from in the last 500 years?

Anti-nuclear folk are such morons, if they don't want the lights to go out, they better put up and shut up.

Unless someone can feasible stick a solar power station in orbit around the earth and somehow beam the energy down, then the likes of mainly landlocked countries such as Germany are buggered by the forthcoming energy crisis.
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