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Germany’s nuclear misadventures continue

PRESS TV 25 July 09
Technical problem at two more nuclear reactors in Germany have fuelled the anti-nuclear debate,…………………..The latest mishaps came less than three weeks after a fault at the Kruemmel reactor cuts power and water supplies to thousand of homes, breathing new life into the major campaign issue which has divided the country’s coalition government ahead of the September elections…..

…….a recent poll revealed more public opposition to atomic energy……………

…….Technical faults are not the only demons haunting the country’s nuclear issue.

Last week, a report by Germany’s Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) questioned the safety of a controversial nuclear waste dump facility in Asse, rating the salt-mine storage facility as one of the most unreliable nuclear waste dumps in use after officials found radioactive water leak.

Germany’s nuclear misadventures continue

July 27, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Germany, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive, uranium