I have to admit, I don't much about the movement against nuclear energy in the UK, but it goes way back here. And one of the political parties (the Greens which now have about ~15-20% of the votes) were founded mainly because of the resistance against nuclear power - 6 years before Chernobyl happened. But there's a knee-jerk reaction alright, but mainly in the German government (the parties in power atm) because half a year ago, they decided that the nuclear power plants in Germany should run around 12 years longer each than the law states. Germany was going to stop using nuclear power entirely in 2022 as decided back in 2001 by the Red-Green government, but nooo, the Black-Yellow (haha, that sounds stupid! xD the conservative-liberal (and that sounds like a contradiction...)) made a new (quite fishy) law, that kind of ignored the old one. It's true that Germans are quite prone to panic about everything (Waldsterben anyone?), but I think with nuclear power it's kind of a special relationship... Like I said, I think it's partly my upbringing why I'm so against nuclear power and the thing is, the region my family lived (and still lives) would have been one of the main routes for nuclear battles, hadn't the Cold War stayed cold. I think it's called "Fulda gap" and because of that, the thread loomed, even if that sounds kind of dramatic...
But yeah, it's mainly the thing the the governemt is opportunist and now makes unrealistic plans for abandoning nuclear power just so they don't lose any more voters (they lost a lot the last year or so).
I think theoretically the EU is awesome and I'm happy so many states take part, as it's kind of cool to be able to travel so easily (I don't have much of an economic perspective there...), but sadly the EU doesn't quite have the best reputation...
And I'm sorry when I rambled about something you already knew, I just feel so talkative today...
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Date: 2011-03-31 03:53 pm (UTC)But there's a knee-jerk reaction alright, but mainly in the German government (the parties in power atm) because half a year ago, they decided that the nuclear power plants in Germany should run around 12 years longer each than the law states. Germany was going to stop using nuclear power entirely in 2022 as decided back in 2001 by the Red-Green government, but nooo, the Black-Yellow (haha, that sounds stupid! xD the conservative-liberal (and that sounds like a contradiction...)) made a new (quite fishy) law, that kind of ignored the old one.
It's true that Germans are quite prone to panic about everything (Waldsterben anyone?), but I think with nuclear power it's kind of a special relationship...
Like I said, I think it's partly my upbringing why I'm so against nuclear power and the thing is, the region my family lived (and still lives) would have been one of the main routes for nuclear battles, hadn't the Cold War stayed cold. I think it's called "Fulda gap" and because of that, the thread loomed, even if that sounds kind of dramatic...
But yeah, it's mainly the thing the the governemt is opportunist and now makes unrealistic plans for abandoning nuclear power just so they don't lose any more voters (they lost a lot the last year or so).
I think theoretically the EU is awesome and I'm happy so many states take part, as it's kind of cool to be able to travel so easily (I don't have much of an economic perspective there...), but sadly the EU doesn't quite have the best reputation...
And I'm sorry when I rambled about something you already knew, I just feel so talkative today...