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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:05PM (#203339)

    Fossil fuels are renewable too. It just takes a few million years to renew them. ;-)

  • (Score: 2) by nukkel on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:05PM

    by nukkel (168) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:05PM (#203471)

    And then non-renewable again as our sun dies out.
    And then renewable again as the universe collapses and a new big bang occurs.

    As you go up (or down) the time scale, renewable and non-renewable tend to alternate.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:49PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:49PM (#203893)

      What makes you think the Universe will collapse? Currently the expansion is accelerating and it doesn't look like it will ever collapse, likely ending up in the heat-death of the Universe.