Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal

Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by foepys on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:06PM (#15696895)

Germany is traditionally very anti-nuclear because when the Chernobyl disaster happened, a lot of people in the south were told to not let their children play outside. Even today some mushrooms and boars that eat those mushrooms are contaminated.

On the French and Belgian side of its borders Germany got some very old reactors that had some serious security related incidents within the last few years. [1] In the city of Aachen the government even distributed iodine tablets if it gets worse.

Additionally Germany doesn't have locations to store radioactive waste indefinitely. The current location for intermediate storage, called "Asse", is known to be leaking contaminated water into all kinds of directions and nobody is really sure how to stop it. [2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihange_Nuclear_Power_Station#...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine#Water_inflow

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Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by vog on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:04PM (#15697514)

And finally, don't forget Fukushima. The current politics here in Germany are a direct reaction to Fukushima.

Chernobyl, Asse, Aachen, Gorleben all didn't change anything in our politics. But Fukushima did. Immediately.

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Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by lispm on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:13PM (#15697599)

The end of nuclear was decided long before Fukushima - in 2000.

The Merkel government was on its way to change that, against protests (2010). Shortly after that Fukushima happened (2011), and Merkel had to return to the Atomausstieg (also 2011).

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