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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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:18AM (#203239)

    Yeah, and the floor does wonders for stopping a free fall. So what is the point in parachutes?

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:29PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:29PM (#203486) Journal
    No one has yet to show parachutes are needed. There are advantages in addition to the alleged costs to delaying a transition to renewable energy. After all, Germany and Denmark have in the process of shifting over now, doubled the cost of their electricity, which doesn't sound like a good move to me.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:25PM (#203877)

      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

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 02 2015, @04:32AM (#204088) Journal

        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.