Germany’s Nuclear Shutdown, Energy Security Unhinged
- Last Three Plants To Go Offline, Despite Last-Minute Appeals For Extensions
- Critics have called the action a case of “energy security suicide” citing the unreliable nature of renewable energy on the grid and increased reliance on coal including lignite.
- Critics also argue that switching off reactors will deprive country of zero CO2 emission power and increase reliance on fossil fuel plants that contribute to climate change and significant increases in air pollution along with increased cases of respiratory disease and deaths.
- Germany will fail to meet it climate change commitments as a result of shutting down all of its nuclear reactors.
Other Nuclear News
- MIT ~ Shutting Down Nuclear Power Could Increase Air Pollution
- Clean Core and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Partner on ANEEL Fuel for PHWRs
- Japan Adopts National Strategy On Nuclear Fusion As Competition Intensifies
- GAO ~ Nuclear Fusion; Fundamental Challenges Still Need To Be Overcome
- DOE ~ RFI for Fusion Energy Neutron Sources
- NRC Decision Separates Fusion Energy Regulation from Nuclear Fission
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