{"id":1100,"date":"2010-01-23T11:51:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2010-01-23T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:55:26","slug":"german-ends-the-end-of-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/der-spiegel\/german-ends-the-end-of-nuclear-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Ends the End of Nuclear Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Philippsburg_q\"The editors of Spiegel magazine still think anyone who supports nuclear power is a minion of Satan bent on the destruction of humanity, but according to this article<\/a>, at least some Germans are beginning to see the light. Under the byline \u201cEnd of the Atom Shutdown,\u201d and the lugubriously disapproving headline, \u201cThe Federal Government wants to leave Ancient Reactors Online,\u201d we read:<\/p>\n

The atom lobby got its way: Spiegel has learned that the federal government wants to leave all 17 of Germany\u2019s reactors online, including the ancient reactors at Neckarwestheim and Biblis \u2013 that will continue in operation by virtue of a trick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hamburg \u2013 For the time being, it\u2019s the end of the atomic shutdown: According to Spiegel\u2019s information the federal government has decided to leave all 17 of Germany\u2019s nuclear reactors on the net for the time being following a meeting with energy concerns in the chancellory. Even the ancient Neckarwestheim 1 and Biblis A, which would soon have been required to shut down according to the red-green consensus on atomic power, are to remain in operation until the black-yellow government has agreed on a new energy policy. This might take until October\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026Sigmar Gabriel, the head of the SPD, expressed outrage, and accused the government of \u201cdirty deals.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, you can see which way the spin blows, but apparently a good number of Germans, with the obvious exception of Spiegel and the wildly misnomered \u201cGreens\u201d are beginning to realize that taking nuclear plants offline means keeping coal plants online<\/a>. It is difficult to imagine why this makes sense in a world in which our number one environmental problem is supposed to be global warming, but human beings can convince themselves of anything if they happen to be wearing the proper ideological blinders. <\/p>\n

The German government is to be congratulated for putting common sense over ideological purity. Meanwhile, here\u2019s a clue for the editors of Spiegel. In addition to being world champion air polluters and prodigious producers of greenhouse gases, coal plants are also a greater radioactive hazard<\/a> than nuclear plants.<\/p>\n

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The editors of Spiegel magazine still think anyone who supports nuclear power is a minion of Satan bent on the destruction of humanity, but according to this article, at least some Germans are beginning to see the light. Under the byline \u201cEnd of the Atom Shutdown,\u201d and the lugubriously disapproving headline, \u201cThe Federal Government wants … Continue reading “Germany Ends the End of Nuclear Power”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,43,20,52,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-der-spiegel","category-environment","category-germany","category-global-warming","category-nuclear-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwEq0-hK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}