Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022

[EnglishLady]

BBC News

Germany's coalition government has announced a reversal of policy that will see all the country's nuclear power plants phased out by 2022.

The decision makes Germany the biggest industrial power to announce plans to give up nuclear energy.

Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen made the announcement following late-night talks.

Chancellor Angela Merkel set up a panel to review nuclear power following the crisis at Fukushima in Japan.

There have been mass anti-nuclear protests across Germany in the wake of March's Fukushima crisis, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami

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[scottm4211]

Germany: We put the coal in coalition.

 

[Turtle]

Several countries have announces similar measures. I think the Swiss announced they will be building no more news ones, and as he current ones go offline at the end of their lifespan, they will not be replaced. Much of it is knee-jerk reaction, some of it is good sense. Frankly, I never understood the thought process of building a nuclear reactor in a quake prone area. Seems like you're just asking for it. We've got a few here in the US in quake prone areas that should probably be shut down, but I don't think every reactor everywhere should be shut down.