{"id":180415,"date":"2021-12-31T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=180415"},"modified":"2021-12-31T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T13:55:24","slug":"germany-shuts-down-half-of-its-6-remaining-nuclear-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=180415","title":{"rendered":"Germany shuts down half of its 6 remaining nuclear plants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Germany on Friday is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy was first taken by the center-left government of Gerhard Schroeder in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His successor, Angela Merkel, reversed her decision to extend the lifetime of Germany’s nuclear plants in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan and set 2022 as the final deadline for shutting them down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The three reactors now being shuttered were first powered up in the mid-1980s. Together they provided electricity to millions of German households for almost four decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the plants — Brokdorf, located about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of Hamburg on the Elbe River — became a particular focus of anti-nuclear protests that were fuelled by the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other two plants are Grohnde, about 40 kilometres south of Hannover, and Grundremmingen, 80 kilometres west of Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany’s remaining three nuclear plants — Emsland, Isar and Neckarwestheim — will be powered down by the end of 2022.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Germany on Friday is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power. 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