[hotShot]

Perhaps some of you are not aware that the german government and agreed with the nuclear industry in the year 2000 to shut down the power plants within the next 20-25 years.
Merkel's government changed that end of last year, just before the first plants would have been shut down.

Merkel's decision now is going a little further than what had already been planed and prepared during the last 10 years.

[Aberlour10]

I don't think the last word in this case is already spoken. Merkel is shocked at the moment due to losing several elections in Germany. Her current schedule for the nuclear phase out may change in any moment, the next finacial crisis will come for sure and then the question will be: Are we able to go offline and who will pay these billions for it?
A majority of Germans oppose atomic energy but this can turn if the costs for energy will explode. The german energy giants like RWE plans already to build a new nuclear plant in Netherlands for ex. New and old reactors in Poland, Russia and France will remain for x decades, so this german solo run doesn't make much sense in my opinion.

[mgoetze]

While we're on the subject...

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Stabilizing the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant by the end of the year may be impossible, senior officials at Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday, throwing a monkey wrench into plans to let evacuees return to their homes near the plant.

http://search.japant...20110530a2.html

[y66]

Does it matter where the nuclear power plants are located? Is the cost of imported electricity so much higher than locally generated electricity?

[hrothgar]

y66, on 2011-May-31, 06:43, said:

Does it matter where the nuclear power plants are located? Is the cost of imported electricity so much higher than locally generated electricity?

http://www.stealth31...-resistance.htm