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.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:18AM
Yeah, and the floor does wonders for stopping a free fall. So what is the point in parachutes?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:29PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:25PM
Perhaps because we don't have a spare planet to experiment on. Given the choice I'd rather pay for a parachute and not need it rather than just jump and hope for the best.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 02 2015, @04:32AM
Given the choice I'd rather pay for a parachute and not need it rather than just jump and hope for the best.
There's plenty of nebulous and imaginary dangers out there. I'd rather we work out an evidence and economics-based approach rather than a jump-at-shadows approach. I think it's time for triage - to work on the risks and problems that are most important to us. And frankly, climate change doesn't make the cut.