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What now that Germany dims nuclear power plants?
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now that Germany dims nuclear power plants? really bad news in terms of
climate change "Even if Germany succeeds in producing the electricity
it needs, “the nuclear moratorium is very bad news in terms of climate
policy,” Mr. Varro said. “We are not far from losing that battle, and
losing nuclear makes that unnecessarily difficult.”" read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/science/earth/30germany.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2,
also to satisfy the required power they are buying power generated by
nuclear in neighboruring countries!!! "Set in the lush, rolling Bohemian
hills of the Czech Republic, the twin reactors of the Soviet-designed
Temelín nuclear power plant lie just 44 miles from the German border.
Since last spring, when Chancellor Angela Merkel began shutting down
Germany’s nuclear reactors, Temelín has stepped up supplies of
electricity to Bavaria, where big German manufacturers including BMW,
Audi, and Siemens (SI) have factories.
There’s a double paradox
here. Germany says its future will be nuclear-free. For the present,
though, it’s nuclear not-so-free, relying more than ever on electricity
from atomic-powered neighbors. What’s more, the Germans have been
turning off their reactors because they don’t want a Fukushima-style
meltdown spewing radiation across their country. Yet the Temelín
reactors, which are in good shape, are close enough to the border to
rain down radiation on Germany should a serious accident occur." read
more: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/nukefree-germany-isnt-exactly-nukefree-09292011.html
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