Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Germany has dragged its feet on EVs because of its powerful car industry. How much did ending nuclear power impede German climate progress? New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2023
The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019.
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Energy and Climate Law
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. By that time the nuclear power plant in Krümmel had several safety issues and small-impact incidents were discovered. The residual electricity volumes are a key-instrument of the Atomic Energy Act and the German nuclear phase out.
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
The Grohnde plant is one of the German nuclear power plants which is due to shut down at the end of 2021. A recent report has shed light on the scale of the climate cost of Germany decommissioning its nuclear power plants. Photo credit: Preussen Elektra. By Anders Lorenzen.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
United Nations experts will assess plans to release treated radioactive water into the ocean from a closed nuclear power plant in Japan. Environmental Protection Agency links proximity to agricultural land to high levels of toxic algal blooms in Midwestern lakes. The lake is a living being, but it has no voice in the story.
A Greener Life
JULY 30, 2021
The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) .
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 26, 2022
Depending on the nature and extent of the damage, the plant could experience one or more core meltdowns or spent nuclear fuel pool fires, which could trigger a radiological release rivaling that of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident or even the larger release from the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
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