German nuclear exit possible by 2017, official government research body says

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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14919681,00.html

"Germany could cover its energy needs without nuclear power by 2017, the research group for the environment ministry has said. It added that by 2050, all the country's energy needs could be covered by renewables.

The research group that answers scientific questions for the German environment ministry, the Umweltbundesamt, has calculated that the country could complete its exit from nuclear energy by as early as 2017 and that consumers would not see an appreciable increase in their energy bills.

The German government, in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan, ordered the shut-down of the seven oldest of the country's 17 nuclear power plants.

Chancellor Angela Merkel also slapped a three-month moratorium on the government's decision last fall to extend the lives of its nuclear plants, reversing a decision by the previous government to end the country's nuclear program by 2021.

On Thursday, Merkel announced a "measured exit" to nuclear power, telling parliament that the goal was "to reach the age of renewable energy as soon as possible................................"





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the is the path to reason and sanity

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[lbrtbell]

1. When Merkel is the voice of sanity

You know the world's gone completely nuts.

[stockholmer]

2. lololol, so true, so true, but she is being drug to it kicking and screaming

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[MissHoneychurch]

3. I'm expecting her to do another U-turn

in 3 months when all the elections are over. I predict that most nuclear plants will be back on line by then. The energy giants (RWE, E-ON ...) paid her too much for her to let her off the hook.

Most people in Germany see that moratorium as an election joke. They don't trust her. Me neither.