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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. [57] Spent nuclear fuel is stockpiled in temporary locations. [58]
Germany on Tuesday poured cold water on extending the life-span of its nuclear plants to help cut its reliance on Russian gas, saying it needed instead to build up alternative energy sources at ...
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 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 ...
The last three nuclear power plants in Germany—Emsland, Isar II and Neckarwestheim II—were shut down on 15 April 2023. [72] [73] In April 2024, there was a controversy related to the decommissioning of nuclear power plants in Germany.
Scale model of the Gundremmingen plant, in the information center The damaged Unit A Retired turbine from Unit A in front of plant information center. Unit A was a boiling water reactor with an output of 237 megawatts, the first large nuclear power plant in Germany. It was in operation from December 1966 until January 1977, and generated a ...
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.
Geologist Hermann Behmel was a prominent opponent of the Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant. [5] In April 2009, anti-nuclear activists blocked the entrance to the controversial Neckarwestheim Nuclear Plant with an 8-metre wall. Their protest coincided with the annual meeting of the company that runs the plant, Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW). [6]