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Nuclear power plants take years to dismantle, and contaminated sites have to be cleared and declared free of radiation. [36] One estimate puts the cost of dismantling Germany's nuclear reactor sites at €18 billion, not counting the cost of radioactive waste disposal. [56] Spent nuclear fuel is stockpiled in temporary locations. [57]
A gradual closing of nuclear power plants had come along with concessions in questions of safety for the population with transport of nuclear waste throughout Germany. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] This latter point has been disagreed with by the Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power. Germany shuts down ...
Here is a look at Germany's politically charged debate on nuclear power. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy.
Germany was set to phase out nuclear energy by end-2022, but now faces a looming crisis after Russia cut off natural-gas flows via a key pipeline.
The Grafenrheinfeld plant was taken offline on June 28, six months before scheduled to close on December 3, 2015 as part of Germany's ongoing policy to shut all nuclear power plants down in the country by 2022. [5] [6] The plant owners decided it was uneconomic to continue operation as planned. [7]
Since then, Russia has reduced natural gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany to 20% of capacity amid tensions over the war in Ukraine. Germany argues over nuclear shutdown ...
One study found that the nuclear phase-out caused $12 billion in social costs per year, primarily due to increases in mortality due to exposure to pollution from fossil fuels. [6] Germany has been called "the world's first major renewable energy economy". [7] [8] German governments support the European Green Deal. [9]