Germany & Joe Lieberman having second thoughts re Nuclear Plants

[jannyk]

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1710: The crisis has renewed concern in other countries about the safety of atomic power. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said it represented a turning point for the world. She said that safety standards at her own country's nuclear power stations would now be reviewed.

In the United States, Senator Joe Lieberman said Washington needed to put the brakes on the development of nuclear power plants until lessons were learned from what had happened in Japan.

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1713: The BBC's Stephen Evens in Berlin says: "There was already a strong movement in Germany opposed to the extension of the lives of the country's 17 nuclear power stations. It held a previously arranged anti-nuclear demonstration on Saturday which drew tens of thousands of people. Germany, clearly, does not have the same concerns as Japan because it is not prone to earthquakes. But this is the first indication of the way in which the whole nuclear debate may be re-framed in many countries. Chancellor Merkel's party faces a big electoral test in two weeks time in precisely the region where the protest took place. The Greens were already doing well in the polls, and it's hard to see how out-of-control reactors in Japan can do anything but strengthen their political position - at Mrs Merkel's expense."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[BadgerKid]

1. Someone suggested yesterday future nuc. power is off the table. n/t

[suffragette]

2. Austria, too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x634233