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07/13/2011
Phase-Out
Hurdle
Germany
Could Restart Nuclear
Plant to Plug Energy Gap
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Germany
might need to switch a
nuclear power plant back
on.
Germany's
energy agency is
warning that one of the
German
reactors mothballed in
the wake of Fukushima may have to be restarted
to
make up
for possible power
shortages this winter and next. Berlin
is
also
using
money earmarked for
energy efficiency to subsidize
coal-fired
power
plants.
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Nuclear energy, as has become abundantly clear
this year, has no future in
Germany.
For once the government, the parliament and the public all agree:
Atomic
reactors in the country will be history a decade from now.
Before
that can happen,
however, the country has to find alternate power
sources. In fact, amid concerns
that
supply shortages this winter could result in temporary blackouts,
Germany's
Federal Network Agency on Tuesday indicated that
one of the seven reactors shut
down in
the immediate wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan could be
restarted this winter to fill the gap
.
"The numbers that we currently have indicate that one of these nuclear energy
plants will be needed," said agency head Matthias Kurth on Tuesday in Berlin. He
said that ongoing analysis has indicated that fossil fuel-powered plants would
not prove to be adequate as a backup.