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.

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.