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30 Jun 2016

“Full nuclear speed ahead!”

Süddeutsche Zeitung

The nuclear sector is showing confidence at its big trade fair in Le Bourget, France. And German companies which are feeling sidelined by the nuclear phase-out at home are hoping to get work abroad, writes Leo Klimm in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Germany is turning its back on nuclear power – since Fukushima even more so – but many other countries view it as a technology of the future. The head of the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) taunted Germany’s decision as a “weird mix of highly polluting coal power and renewable energies”, Klimm reports.

Read a CLEW dossier about Germany’s nuclear phase-out.

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