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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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