{"id":61249,"date":"2022-01-03T07:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61249"},"modified":"2022-01-03T07:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:18:57","slug":"germany-imperils-power-grid-by-pulling-plug-on-3-nuclear-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61249","title":{"rendered":"Germany “Imperils” Power Grid By Pulling Plug On 3 Nuclear Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Germany “Imperils” Power Grid By Pulling Plug On 3 Nuclear Plants<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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As nat gas prices surge in Europe, Germany is kicking off the new year by moving ahead with plans to shutter three of its six remaining nuclear power plants, making good on a commitment made in the aftermath of Japan’s disastrous meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.<\/p>\n

The decision was championed especially vigorously by the Greens, who are now helping to rule as part of Germany’s new “stop sign” ruling coalition.\u00a0But soaring natural gas prices across Europe mean this concession to the environmental lobby couldn’t come at a worse time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Above: One of the shuttered plants, located in Gundremmingen. Source:\u00a0Reuters<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s a decision that could have consequences for the US. As we have complained before, the AOC-backed “Green New Deal” mostly excluded nuclear, by far the most efficient and useful alternative to fossil fuels, instead choosing to rely solely on\u00a0inadequate “renewables”. And as Reuters adds in its report, Germany’s decision to pull the plug represent an “irreversible” pivot away from an energy source\u00a0deemed “clean and cheap by some.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s more from\u00a0Reuters:<\/a><\/p>\n

Germany has pulled the plug on three of its last six nuclear power stations as it moves towards completing its withdrawal from nuclear power as it turns its focus to renewables.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government decided to speed up the phasing out of nuclear power following Japan’s Fukushima reactor meltdown in 2011 when an earthquake and tsunami destroyed the coastal plant in the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.<\/p>\n

The reactors of Brokdorf, Grohnde and Gundremmingen C, run by utilities E.ON and RWE shut down late on Friday after three and half decades in operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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