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Germany shuts three of its last six nuclear plants
Published Jan 01, 2022 05:27AM ET
Updated Jan 01, 2022 07:05AM ET
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the nuclear power plant, whose last unit will be shut down at the turn of the year, in Gundremmingen, Germany, December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Lukas Barth
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the nuclear power plant, whose last unit will be shut down at the turn of the year, in Gundremmingen, Germany, December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Lukas Barth
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has pulled the plug on three of its last six nuclear power stations as it moves towards completing its withdrawal from nuclear power as it turns its focus to renewables.
The government decided to speed up the phasing out of nuclear power following Japan's Fukushima reactor meltdown in 2011 when an earthquake and tsunami destroyed the coastal plant in the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
The reactors of Brokdorf, Grohnde and Gundremmingen C, run by utilities E.ON and RWE, shut down late on Friday after three and half decades in operation.
The last three nuclear power plants - Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim II - will be turned off by the end of 2022.
Preussen Elektra, which runs the Brokdorf and Grohnde plants, said in a statement on Saturday the two had been shut down shortly before midnight on Friday. RWE said the Gundremmingen C plant also stopped generation on Friday evening.
PreussenElektra CEO Guido Knott thanked staff for their commitment to safety: "We have made a decisive contribution to the secure, climate-friendly and reliable supply of electricity in Germany for decades."
The phase-out of an energy deemed clean and cheap by some is an irreversible step for Europe's biggest economy even as it faces ambitious climate targets and rising power prices.
The six nuclear power plants contributed to around 12% of electricity production in Germany in 2021, preliminary figures showed. The share of renewable energy was almost 41%, with coal generating just under 28% and gas around 15%.
Germany aims to make renewables meet 80% of power demand by 2030 by expanding wind and solar power infrastructure.
Japan's government on Tuesday mapped out a plan for releasing contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, angering neighbouring China and South Korea.
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Comments (9)
Todd Gray
Jan 01, 2022 11:54AM ET
To add to that, and to quote a sociologist from either Harvard or Yale (can't remember) the only real disaster we have, and they real reason the world is in the diaper it's in, is two generations ago higher education removed traditional morality from all curriculum. This effectively created the multitude of abuses from high & low places we now enjoy. Little monkey's see big monkeys do, little monkey do too.
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David Stocks
Jan 01, 2022 11:54AM ET
pangea, ever heard of it? Antarctica was not overthe south pole 300 million years ago when the fossil fuels were deposited. also there were no people then so there's That. cattle methane is 95% burps not farts. keep trying Todd , but you do sound so smart and logical, its just too bad you are so closed minded. big picture.
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Todd Gray
Jan 01, 2022 11:44AM ET
Clean nuclear power would be the safest way to go. They didn't initially use clean nuclear power, because you can't use the stuff to make bombs. Imo, this climate stuff is mostly a scam. Ted Talks now has a bunch scientists abandoning the green agenda. The thing is, they all knew it was mostly baloney decades ago. Take the cow farts scam. What they ommitted, was there were millions more bison & deer farting in precolonial America than there are cows farting today. But, the earth was fine then, as it is now. In the novel State of Fear, by Michael Creighton, the theme was politicians, law & media publicly announced climate change a few months after the iron curtain fell. Climate change was merely a terror to replace the terror of Russia nuking the world. Which they'd never do, because the result would be mutually assured destruction. The only real concern with a nuclear bombing, comes from some little rogue faction with absolutely nothing to lose.
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Tyrone Jackson
Jan 01, 2022 11:12AM ET
Go put your face in front of a solar panel in the middle of the day- the heat will roast your face- now go look at those huge solar farms- the heat is killing every living creature that flies over them.
Global warming ?
Lol
Coldest winter on record here.
Fossils found in Antarctica proves it was a lush land before.
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Charles ODonnell
Jan 01, 2022 10:55AM ET
Makes no sense...28% from coal power plants....21% from clean nuclear and you shutdown the clean energy for climate change to support what? NWO
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Alex Malmstrom
Jan 01, 2022 10:32AM ET
Meanwhile, France has decided to reinvest into its existing nuclear energy power plants. Germany is en route back to the middle ages thanks to their socialist/ liberal elites!
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Ronald Warren
Jan 01, 2022 9:01AM ET
"HYSR"
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David Stocks
Jan 01, 2022 9:01AM ET
hysr is a fake company with a ceo with past fraud allegations
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David Stocks
Jan 01, 2022 9:01AM ET
you gotta dig deep
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adriaan kuhn
Jan 01, 2022 7:09AM ET
how many windmills will it take to cope with the demand........ nucleair power is the cleanest way to produce energie so why shut them down.... producing windmills is everything but co2 friendly
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Karl Kessler
Jan 01, 2022 6:50AM ET
I wonder what the long term effects will be from the proliferation of wind farms. The thought of free-flowing winds being caught and slowed all over the lands is a bit concerning to me. When it's warm, I like fans and breezes. Wind farms are anti-fans. Seems like it will have an impact.
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Blair Rempel
Jan 01, 2022 6:50AM ET
Poverty - the objective of the far left/woke cult.
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Karl Kessler
Jan 01, 2022 6:50AM ET
Blair Rempel Yeah, I predict that France, which is keeping most of her nuclear plants, will have an economic advantage over the next few decades.
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