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posted by cmn32480 on Monday June 29 2015, @06:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the where-will-we-get-3-eyed-fish dept.

Germany's oldest remaining nuclear reactor has been shut down, part of a move initiated four years ago to switch off all its nuclear plants by 2022.

Bavaria's environment ministry said Sunday that the Grafenrheinfeld reactor in the southern German state was taken offline as scheduled overnight, the news agency dpa reported. Grafenrheinfeld went into service in 1981. It's the first reactor to close since Germany switched off the oldest eight of its 17 nuclear reactors in 2011, just after Japan's Fukushima disaster. The next to close will be one of two reactors at the Gundremmingen plant in Bavaria, which is set to shut in late 2017. The rest will be closed by the end of 2022.

Germany aims to generate 80 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050.


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  • (Score: 1) by angelosphere on Monday June 29 2015, @09:45PM

    by angelosphere (5088) on Monday June 29 2015, @09:45PM (#203024)

    Obviously none, as gas turbines are not used to replace base load plants, *facepalm* stupids question in ever asked in an energy related topic.
    Gas turbines are used for secundary reserve power ... google is your friend.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 29 2015, @09:58PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday June 29 2015, @09:58PM (#203039)

    When your PV/Wind goes beyond a certain threshold in the mix, your fast-start plant doubles as your base load plant.
    If the weather forecast gives you a couple weeks of great renewables, you'd be dumb to keep running base at full tilt and crash the spot price.