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Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down

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

janrinok writes:

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 khallow on Tuesday June 30 2015, @01:18AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 30 2015, @01:18AM (#203121) Journal

    The problem was not the sea wall.

    Sure, in that it wasn't the only problem. But if the Fukushima plant had a sea wall about 5 meters higher, we wouldn't have even known the place existed. That makes the sea wall one of the problems.

    The sea wall wont help ... next big Tsunami is simple even higher ... what then?

    What's going to generate this higher tsunami? And how many centuries from now will it come?