Unhappy new year: Germany closes three nuclear plants

January 4, 2022, 9:30AMNuclear News

E.ON subsidiary Preussen Elektra’s Grohnde nuclear plant, located near the town of Hameln in Lower Saxony, on the banks of the Weser River. (Wikimedia/Heinz-Josef Lücking)

Holding to its Fukushima-inspired policy of phasing out nuclear power, and ignoring pleas from a variety of clean energy advocates to reconsider, Germany has closed three of its remaining six operating nuclear power plants.

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American Nuclear Society supports water release at Fukushima Daiichi

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Unhappy new year: Germany closes three nuclear plants

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