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28 Jun 2018

Germany wages “dirty war on nuclear power” in Europe

Forbes

The star of Germany as a climate action leader has been descending for several years, not least due to its rigid stance on phasing out nuclear power and filling the energy generation gap with carbon-intensive coal power, Michael Shellenberger writes for Forbes. “Now, heedless of its negative environmental impact, and in the grip of a darkly romantic national ideology, Germany is on the march to raze nuclear plants all across Europe,” he says.

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For background read the 91tv dossier The challenges of Germany’s nuclear phase-out.

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