Germany plans to shut all nuclear reactors by 2022 and double renewable energy to 35%

Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 08:18 UTC

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Germany plans to shut all nuclear reactors by 2022, Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition announced Monday, in a policy reversal drawn up in a rush after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Read full article

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GeoffWard
This makes no economic sense at all.
Wind and sun = coal and nuclear !!!
It is a policy of madness; the scales are impossibly different, the efficiencies, consistency and reliabilities also.
This is a political move to side-step green political groups etc.

. . . . unless, of course, Germany might know something we don't about the future availability of uranium. Hmmmm
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xbarilox
The end is drawing near for Merkel...
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