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Twenty countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit to triple their nuclear energy capacity by 2050 to reduce carbon emissions. How feasible is the target given the complexities and cost of building new nuclear plants?

Once one of the worlds strongest economies, Germany is now expected to have the worst performing economy of any leading nation in the world.

Germany has remained the sick man of Europe as its economy stagnated in the second quarter, new figures show, as the country battles an industrial slowdown and stubborn inflation.

The undecidedness about nuclear energy is in stark contrast to J. Robert Oppenheimers Bhagavad Gita-inspired equanimity about his creation of the atom bomb. Even though he did show the Arjuna-like guilt after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying he had blood on his hands, he never regretted his act.

The head of Germanys energy firm RWE said he fears that Germany will face a shortage of electricity that will see prices in the already struggling country soar.

Germany faces electricity shortages that will see critical industries ditch the country after the government decided to shut down the last remaining nuclear power plants in favour of renewable energy sources, business chiefs have warned. The head...

By Riham Alkousaa 13 Apr 23 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-ends-nuclear-era-activist-says-still-more-do-2023-04-15/?fbclid=IwAR2vNrwrRP0HzRERH0bM02b4-zC1-Zd9NAhDKtbpSleRXrTvHbRlOa0HRzs Germany is closing its last three reactors on Saturday Smital says protest against nuclear power is not over Cites fuel assembly, enrichment facilities still operating Anti-nuclear movement helped spawn Germany's Greens BERLIN, April 15 (Reuters) - Heinz Smital was a 24-year-old nuclea...

Heinz Smital (pictured) was a 24-year-old nuclear physics researcher when he first saw how far nuclear contamination could spread after the Chornobyl disaster in 1986. A few days after it occurred he waved a damp cloth out of a window at the University of Vienna to sample the citys air and was shocked by how […]

Smoking towers were shut forever on Saturday as Berlin enacts its plan for fully-renewable electricity

REUTERS (Berlin) — Germany will pull the plug on its last three nuclear power stations by Saturday, ending a six-decade program that spawned one of Europes strongest protest movements but