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Nuclear lies against Germany have been shown up, in its nuclear free success

unrepentant global warming hysterics such as Britain’s James Lovelock or the USA’s James Hansen cling to the all-powerful image of nuclear power, like any easily impressed and easily manipulated schoolboy

in Germany,  its bet against nuclear power, driven by massive popular and political support has won out against all the nuclear propaganda and lies.

Germany’s Energiewende And The End Of Nuclear Power, The Market Oracle Nov 25, 2012  By: Andrew_McKillop “……..Making a smooth transition to a renewable energy-based economy is simply not possible by ruining energy consumers. The big-spending wishlist, to be sure, is almost endless: as shown by the now  farcical story of UK government attempts to “relaunch nuclear power” in Britain, with its contracts for difference and electricity market regulation – and guaranteed producer prices for nuclear electricity up to 166 euros per 1000 kWh (145 GBP/MWh) – trying to breathe life back into La Fee Atomique, or the nuclear fairy as it is called in nuclear-besotted France, is a very expensive game. Continue reading →

November 26, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | Leave a comment

The remains of Lithuania’s Ignalina nuclear plant, dangerous and expensive

Ignalina is turning out to be a hard lesson for Europe: It’s one thing to kill a nuclear power station; getting rid of the remains is another headache entirely.

Lithuanians near old nuclear plant fear for their lives Washington Times, 
By Gary Peach-Associated Press , November 25, 2012 VISAGINAS, Lithuania — The parking lot outside the atomic power plant is weedy and potholed. Bus stops that once teemed with hundreds of workers are eerily empty.

Yet the stillness at Ignalina, a Lithuanian nuclear plant built in the 1980s Soviet era, belies an unsettling fact: There is still nuclear fuel inside one of its two reactors, three years after it was shut due to safety concerns. A temporary storage facility for spent fuel and radioactive waste is four years behind schedule, creating a money drain at a time when the 27-nation European Union grapples with a crippling economic crisis.

States don’t need EU permission to build nuclear plants, but they need to abide by its safety rules, and the problems at Ignalina have provoked threats from the EU to cut the funding promised for dismantling it. Continue reading →

November 26, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | Leave a comment