Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 822
dcollins writes "Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialized power to shut down all its nuclear plants in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022... Germany has 17 nuclear reactors on its territory, eight of which are currently off the electricity grid... Already Friday, the environment ministers from all 16 German regional states had called for the temporary order on the seven plants to be made permanent... Monday's decision is effectively a return to the timetable set by the previous Social Democrat-Green coalition government a decade ago. And it is a humbling U-turn for Merkel, who at the end of 2010 decided to extend the lifetime of Germany's 17 reactors by an average of 12 years, which would have kept them open until the mid-2030s."
Re:By coincidence... (Score:4, Funny)
The Netherlands will do the same, next to the German border...
With the dominant West-wind in western europe, nuclear fallout will most probably head in the direction of Germany.
So they're fucked anyway...
Hah, we'll simply build our windpower turbines on the other side of the border, and throw them in reverse when something happens.
Re:By coincidence... (Score:5, Funny)
But with all the nuclear plants down, what's gonna power the wind turbines?
Re:First in a long line I hope! (Score:1, Funny)
You should move to the Fukushima area or to Pripyat and enjoy the clean and healthy environment there.