'The United States would do well to follow this example, rather than continue to fund nuclear power, the slowest, and most expensive of all energy choices,' says BeyondNuclear's Linda Pentz Gunter as Germany shuts down its last three nuclear plants.
"The United States would do well to follow this example, rather than continue to fund nuclear power, the slowest, and most expensive of all energy choices," asserted one activist.Environmentalists in Europe and beyond cheered as Germany's last three nuclear power plants went offline over the weekend, a controversial move the country's environmental minister hailed as the start of"a new era of energy production.
"Millions of people worked towards this day for years," Greenpeace Germany managing director Roland Hipp wrote in an."People who protested against reprocessing plants, nuclear waste transport, unsafe nuclear waste storage facilities, and the construction of new nuclear power plants. Those decades of resistance were worth it."
"The German nuclear phaseout is a victory of reason over the lust for profit; over powerful corporations and their client politicians," Hipp added."It is a people-powered success against all the odds." ;“The last remaining German nuclear power stations finally shut down two days ago.\n\nGermany's nuclear phaseout has made the remarkable growth of renewables possible.\n\nThere's work to do, but a 100% renewable energy system is within reach.
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