Business leaders urged caution when making major decisions on nuclear plants, which in total supply about a quarter of all electricity needed to power Europe's biggest economy. "Panic and party politics make bad advisers," said Hans Heinrich Driftmann, who heads the German Chamber of Industry and Trade.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
End of Nuclear Energy As We Know It? -- Pundits, Analysts
Germany to shutter seven of its seventeen nuclear reactors. All reactors built before 1980 will be shut down. A third of its nuclear capacity is being shut down for at least three months.
