{"id":305,"date":"2011-05-31T19:33:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T19:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.japhethlim.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2016-10-26T17:09:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T17:09:29","slug":"nuclear-phase-out-can-make-germany-trailblazer-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.japhethlim.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/31\/nuclear-phase-out-can-make-germany-trailblazer-merkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear phase-out can make Germany trailblazer &#8211; Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was on CNN today, I watched it live from Office, and came back and noticing people are talking about it. So it&#8217;s a big news. Let all the other countries continue debating about the Nuclear issue and though some are hanging it widely, Germany took the step.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said a decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022 can make her country a trailblazer in renewable energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302 alignleft\" title=\"angela-merkel_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.japhethlim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/angela-merkel_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.japhethlim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/angela-merkel_2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.japhethlim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/angela-merkel_2-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.japhethlim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/angela-merkel_2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Germany is the biggest industrial power to renounce nuclear energy, in a policy reversal for the governing centre-right coalition.\u00a0Mrs Merkel set up a panel to review nuclear power following the crisis at Fukushima in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami in March, led to mass anti-nuclear protests across Germany. The anti-nuclear drive boosted Germany&#8217;s Green party, which took control of the Christian Democrat stronghold of Baden-Wuerttemberg, in late March.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, you could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-13597627\">read the full article here. <\/a> &#8220;We can be the first major industrialised country that achieves the transition to renewable energy with all the opportunities &#8211; for exports, development, technology, jobs &#8211; it carries with it.&#8221; There is no doubt personally from me on How Germany can do it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the German plan the country&#8217;s seven oldest reactors &#8211; which were taken offline for a safety review immediately after the Japanese crisis &#8211; would never be used again.\u00a0An eighth plant &#8211; the Kruemmel facility in northern Germany, which was already offline and has been plagued by technical problems &#8211; would also be shut down for good.\u00a0Six others would go offline by 2021 at the latest and the three newest by 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the other hand, we have<strong> Malaysia plants here discussed to be set up by 202<\/strong>1. Germany has 23% Energy from Nuclear Source, the impressive thing they stated was that this was planned to be a transition point of energy. Where slowly they will shut all and having RE to take over this 23%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I really don&#8217;t know what to say about Malaysia&#8217;s current situation on the dealing with Nuclear. But all i mean is, there you go, the big show has gone up. Opinions anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was on CNN today, I watched it live from Office, and came back and noticing people are talking about it. So it&#8217;s a big news. 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