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Disasters lead to a rethink […] the meltdown in Harrisburg in 1979, the Super-Gau in Chernobyl in 1986. The answer of the then Union-led federal government: He
by al_hag 3y ago
Disasters lead to a rethink
[…] the meltdown in Harrisburg in 1979, the Super-Gau in Chernobyl in 1986. The answer of the then Union-led federal government: Helmut Kohl creates a Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Also a demonstrative sign to the Greens, who first entered the Bundestag in 1983, with the clear demand for an immediate construction and operation stop to all nuclear power plants.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/atomausstieg-debatte-107.html https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/atomausstieg-d...
- acidburnNSA 3y agoYeah... somehow it's hard for humans to compare normal operating combustion sources like fossil and biofuel killing ~8 million people/yr from air pollution while also causing climate change against a few bad reactor accidents.