Germany shut down nuclear power plants to conduct a three month long safety check. German Chancellor Angel Merkel has been accused of using the voters fear of the nuclear crisis in Japan to earn votes. The criticism stems from her overthrowing her previous decision to keep older plants operating past their time due for renovation and inspection. Hm? I am not sure I see what is wrong with changing your mind in loo of a nuclear crisis. Or for that matter, making a decision based on the peoples state of emotion during a crisis. If we are afraid of nuclear energy, by all means turn it off. Right? And if you are doing it for votes, good. Shouldn't a person in a leadership position make decisions based on what the people want?
Laurence Goldborne, Chile's energy and mining minister has chosen not to sign a memorandum of understanding on nuclear cooperation. Instead he decided to take time to consider other energy alternatives.
Today was the thirty second anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant partial core meltdown. Clean up lasted into the 1990's. Concerns for health and fear over the inability to understand and control a nuclear crisis has so far prevented the construction of any more nuclear plants in the US.
I hope the prospects of building are now dead. How about you?
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