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- After Fukushima: nuclear sunset in Germany. G�ldner, Ralf // Modern Power Systems;Dec2011, Vol. 31 Issue 12, p55
The article focuses on the changes in the nuclear policy in Germany after the nuclear accident in the Fukushima Daiichi in Japan on March 11, 2011. It says that the German government decided on several nuclear policies including the moratorium of the operation of seven oldest nuclear plants,...
- The Radioactive Energy Plan. Theil, Stefan // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);8/18/2008, Vol. 152 Issue 8, p26
This article examines how Germans, who once opposed to the use of nuclear energy, are increasingly showing support for it as their economic situation worsens. While the German Parliament passed a law that would decommission all of the country's reactors by 2021, it appears that public debates...
- The Radioactive Energy Plan. Theil, Stefan // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);8/18/2008, Vol. 152 Issue 8, p20
This article examines how Germans, who once opposed to the use of nuclear energy, are increasingly showing support for it as their economic situation worsens. While the German Parliament passed a law that would decommission all of the country's reactors by 2021, it appears that public debates...
- Life after death. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Mar/Apr1994, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p5
Informs on the vastly different fates of two idle nuclear power plants in Germany. Kalkar, site of Germany's completed, abandoned, fast-breeder reactor, will be returned to agricultural uses; Griefswald, the East German plant closed for safety reasons, is being recycled as a training simulator...
- Ludwigshafen waste to energy plant. // Modern Power Systems;Jul94, Vol. 14 Issue 7, p7
Reports on the planned construction of a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Ludwigshafen in Germany. Features of the plant.
- High river temperature shuts plant. // Modern Power Systems;Sep94, Vol. 14 Issue 9, p7
Reports on the closure of the Unterweser nuclear power plant at Esenshamm, Germany in August 1994 due to the increase in temperature of the River Weser. Absence of cooling towers in the plant; Operation at reduced capacity in other PreussenElektra nuclear plants.
- Brunsbuttel restarts. // Modern Power Systems;Aug95, Vol. 15 Issue 8, p7
Reports on the restart of the Brunsbuttel nuclear power plant in Germany after a three year shutdown.
- Nuclear ups and downs. // Modern Power Systems;Sep95, Vol. 15 Issue 9, p6
Reports on developments concerning nuclear power plants in Germany. Discovery of cracks in components of three nuclear plants; Selection of the German nuclear plants among the top ten nuclear facilities in the world for overall availability.
- Mulheim-Karlich nuclear plant remains closed. // Modern Power Systems;Jan96, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p7
Discusses the cancellation of the first part of a licence issued for RWE's nuclear power plant at Mulheim-Karlich in Germany, by the Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland Palatinate. Information on licence; Earth quake safety; RWE's intensions.
