Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over the next nineteen years

Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:12AM (#20712598)

Fukushima was an extremely bad design in an extremely bad place, overseen by an incredibly mixed interest oversight agency.

France, Germany, and probably even the USA have much better cards to play. Heck, even China doesn’t trust itself that much in its nuclear power ambitions because of the huge cost corruption would bring.

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by Tomte on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:14AM (#20712611)

France has Cattenom, a spectacularly bad nuclear reactor they conveniently built right at their eastern border (in a region with predominantly west winds).

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:50AM (#20713002)

If you mean this one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattenom_Nuclear_Power_Plant), under incidents, the only fatal accident has been a fall onto a hard floor.

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by elygre on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:34AM (#20712687)

That feels like the ethical thing to do. If you are to build nuclear reactors, at least own the fallout.

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by Tomte on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:44AM (#20712732)

West winds (Wikipedia tells me the English term is "Westerlies") blows towards the east.

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