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Nuclear Power Phase-Out
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 14, 2023, 11:36 am
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BRIEFING Friday, 14 Apr 2023
[center]Nuclear
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/>controversy flares up
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/>as Germany [glow=green,2,300]shuts down[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]last reactors[/glow][/center]
The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in
Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three
reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from
government coalition party FDP and the opposition came out
against the phase-out, which is also viewed with scepticism by
some scientists, parts of industry, and many citizens.
Government ministers countered that the calls for revisiting the
nuclear exit decision during the technology's final week of
operation were mainly politically motivated, as power supply
security, price stability and the climate targets would not be
negatively affected by the phase-out that was agreed in a broad
political consensus.
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The Grohnde nuclear power plant was decommissioned in late 2021.
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The challenges of Germany’s [glow=red,2,300]nuclear[/glow]
[glow=green,2,300]phase-out[/glow]
With the shutdown of the three last reactors in April 2023, the
era of nuclear power generation comes to an end in Germany. The
decommissioning marks a key milestone of the nuclear phase-out,
a controversial and highly politicised process that took more
than two decades to prepare and will take several more decades
before being fully completed. The European energy crisis
following Russia's war on Ukraine had afforded the technology a
last runtime extension of three months to support electricity
production and caused a last-minute uproar by proponents of the
technology, who argue the phase-out is ill-timed and will
exacerbate challenges in energy security and emissions
reduction. However, the German government decided to go through
with the nuclear exit as planned after the extension has ended.
The future of nuclear power in the country is now likely to be
be dominated by the long and arduous process of dismantling all
of the country's reactors and deciding on a final repository
where radioactive waste can be stored for thousands of
generations. This dossier compiles articles and factsheets on
Germany's nuclear exit decision, the difficulties and
technicalities of decommissioning the closed-down plants and the
huge task of storing the radioactive waste generated in the past
60 years.[UPDATE 14 April, 2023]
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“If we are to avoid the risk of seriously increased real unit
costs of energy in the United States, then new low-cost so
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 5, 2023, 12:43 am
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COUNTERPUNCH
OCTOBER 4, 2023 BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
[center][glow=red,2,300]Nuclear Power[/glow] Has Long Stifled
[glow=green,2,300]Renewables[/glow], Now It’s Time for It to Go
Extinct[/center]
SNIPPET:
On July 2, 1952, President Harry Truman sent a report to
Congress that had been completed a month earlier. It was called
the President’s Materials Policy Commission “Resources for
Freedom”
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/>The Commission was chaired by William S. Paley, so it is
commonly referred to as the Paley Commission.
Chapter 15 was entitled “[glow=green,2,300]The Possibilities of
Solar Energ[/glow]y”. It went through many technical and
economic scenarios, showing great potential and also flagging
some stumbling blocks, most of which have since been solved.
Here is what it concluded. In 1952.
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Full article: 🤦‍♂️
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