{"id":27216,"date":"2017-10-25T06:12:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27216"},"modified":"2017-10-25T06:12:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:12:39","slug":"the-myth-of-a-nuclear-free-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27216","title":{"rendered":"The myth of a nuclear-free Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The myth of a nuclear-free Austria<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"\"Since Austria passed a law banning the importation\u00a0 of nuclear electricity in 2015 it has claimed to be 100% nuclear-free. But 25% of the electricity Austria imports and over 8% of the electricity it consumes is still of indisputably nuclear origin. Austria\u2019s claim to be 100% nuclear-free is either deliberate misrepresentation or an implicit admission that the Austrian government has no idea how Europe\u2019s electricity grid works. (Inset: Austria\u2019s Zwentendorf nuclear plant<\/a>. Completed in 1978. Never put into operation. Now a museum.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nIn the recent Apple, Google, and how not to go 100% renewable<\/a> post I described how Apple and Google were gaming the system to claim that they are powered by 100% renewables when in reality they are nowhere close. But gaming the system isn\u2019t confined to business corporations (or the Dutch Railways<\/a>). Austria does it too, but with a twist. Instead of purchasing \u201cGuarantees of Origin\u201d (GOs) to pretend that it\u2019s bringing renewable energy in, Austria purchases them to pretend that it\u2019s keeping nuclear energy out.<\/p>\n

First a little history. In December 1978 the Austrian Parliament voted in favor of a ban on nuclear fission<\/a> until March 1998, in July 1997 it unanimously passed legislation to remain a nuclear-free country, and since then it has embarked on a crusade to make the rest of Europe nuclear-free too. In 2011 it threatened to file suit to shut down nuclear plants in the Czech Republic and Slovakia<\/a>, and in the same year it did file suit to shut down Slovakia\u2019s Mochovce plant<\/a>. In 2014 Austria threatened to use \u201call political and legal means<\/a>\u201d to stop construction of a nuclear waste dump in the Czech Republic. In 2015 it sued the UK in an attempt to stop Hinkley Point<\/a>, and just recently it filed another suit<\/a> to stop the expansion of the Paks nuclear plant in Hungary. Why is Austria suing everybody? Why can\u2019t it mind its own business?<\/p>\n

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The myth of a nuclear-free Austria Since Austria passed a law banning the importation\u00a0 of nuclear electricity in 2015 it has claimed to be 100% nuclear-free. But 25% of the electricity Austria imports and over 8% of the electricity it consumes is still of indisputably nuclear origin. Austria\u2019s claim to be 100% nuclear-free is either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,11260,1426,2376,578,655,11990],"class_list":["post-27216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-austria","tag-energy-matters","tag-misinformation","tag-myth","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-propaganda","tag-roger-andrews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27217,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216\/revisions\/27217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}