It is becoming evident to many that the March nuclear catastrophe at Japan’s six reactor Daichi Fukushima complex has dealt a huge, possibly fatal, blow to the nuclear industry’s hopes of a revival.
A year ago even global warming enthusiasts reluctantly embraced nuclear power as a carbon-free energy generating system, and the industry was ramping up for glory days as a result.
The triple whammy against nuclear power beginning with the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, followed by 1986’s Chernobyl disaster and now Fukushima, effectively present a “three strikes and you’re out” call against civilian nuclear energy power generation for the foreseeable future. Full article at: Nuclear Twilight in Europe
Bullshit - someone's running a losing race for office and trying to rack up cheap points.
Im not sure I understand your argument. There were three humongous catastrophies that hit the country, including a tsunami, a monstrous earthquake and a volcano erupted not long afterwards. And I don't recall hearing of any deaths related to the nuclear material - 2 related to physical plant conditions during/after the earthquake, but none related to the nuclear material.
I dont see why this would be anything but a celebration of nuclear power as a safe source of energy. What could possibly happen now to cause deaths? I dont think terrorists can cause 9.0 earthquakes or tsunamis. I may be wrong though.
seabird, you forgot to mention that included in all that, they were negligent in their safety standards as well. The funny thing is that isn't being mentioned, is that the very natural disasters that threaten these reactors would annihilate all other reactors (tsunami vs tidal power?).
Again, another point that makes it indisputably a vote grabber in germany is that the french have lots of reactors, all along the german border.
Yep, overall we will see an increase in european electricity prices due to the increase in german electricity imports. Its funny how germany's green party is proposing to offset the lost capacity from nuclear to renewable... the decrease in supply from removing nuclear plants is huge, I dont believe that this demand can only be met with renewables.
Also, CO2 emission prices are expected to rise in the new few years due to changes in the EU Emission Trading Scheme's "rules" so the price of generating electricity with fossil fuels is going to increase even further.
So now Germany has thee choices: 1) import nuclear electricity from Belgium,France... no comment. 2) massively build renewable energy sources and subsidize the shit out of it since the energy generation costs from these technologies demand really high electricity prices to be profitable. 3) Go back to coal (unlikely) or gas-powered plants, increasing germany's dependency on foreign gas (mostly coming from russia)
What I find hilarious is that even if Germany would have no nuclear power plants in its country, it would still risk of being contaminated from a nuclear disaster from one of its neighbors....
Quit bothering to read this dbag after realizing he is just drop in poster spewing anything he can against nuclear or fossil fuel energy.
If it doesn't have a "green" agenda behind his post you won't read anything by oilprice.
He fails everytime he posts and drags people into the discussion.
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