Germany Nuclear Power - Abandoned

Nuclear Power Abandoned

The Germany will knock down all its nuclear power stations by 2020, in according to the government’s Secretary of State for the Environment and Nuclear Safety, Jürgen Becker. Jürgen Becker's comments were made earlier today to the Reuters during a meeting of the International Renewable Energy Association (IREA) in the United Arab Emirates.
Becker said:

“A decision has been taken to shut down eight plants before the end of this year and they definitely won’t be reactivated. And the remaining nine will be shut down by the end of the decade.”

And the critiques fly in the face of public German Government policy, which is that no conclusion has yet been created about the nuclear power stations future following the Fukushima disaster.


It also brings up huge questions about the future tense of Germanys energy supply. The same IREA meeting heard that Germany came to be a net importer of energy from France for the first time this year, and France is definitely the most nuclear friendly country in the EU.

Certainly it would be daft to merely turn off your own nuclear power in order to import it from another country? .

However there is an alternative solution. Back in January, Greenpeace published a report which claimed that 90 percent of European coal and nuclear power could be phased out by 2030.

Possibly, just maybe, the German government is swinging behind it. If not, there could be news of some sackings very soon.