GERMANY | PAVILION MEET GERMANY’S NUCLEAR SECTOR AT WNE2021
First power Germany started up its first research reactors in the 1950s and 1960s and its first commercial plant came online in 1969.
Germany’s early closure programme for its nuclear power stations remains a subject of debate, which has been given extra impetus by the country’s more ambitious plans to close coal plant. Some see the coal exit as more urgent than closing nuclear and a new report says that keeping nuclear in operation could allow a complete exit from coal to be brought forward by ten years, from current plans to exit coal in the mid 2030s to 2028. The One Billion Tons report by Finnish
research firm Think Atom was commissioned by Ökomoderne e.V, and published as fears rose over the cost of gas-fired generation, as gas prices continued to rise and Germany’s reliance on Russia to fill its gas storage and maintain supplies came under scrutiny. “Given that we need to act very fast and reduce emissions significantly in the 2020s, keeping the currently operating nuclear plants open is the quickest and surest way to do that,” says energy analyst Rauli Partanen, lead author of the One Billion Tons report. “It is highly risky and irresponsible towards future generations to try to solve the climate challenge without one of the most capable technologies we have at our disposal.”
Brunsbuettel Brokdorf
Kruemmel Unterweser Emsland Lingen
Grohnde Wuergassen
Greifswald
Muelheim-Karlich Grafenrheinfeld Biblis Obrigheim
Philippsburg Neckarwestheim
Isar Gundremmingen
This year the Sommer Group is celebrating 30 years in operation. It is a full-service provider for large and
It is surprising that there has never been a debate to call into question the decision to go ahead with this transition. Other countries reacted very differently to the nuclear disaster in Japan. France, the US and China continue to operate aging nuclear reactors. New reactors are very expensive and hard to impose on populations, at least in democracies.”
Jens Thurau, Deutsche Welle
heavy transports. Both the permit service and the transport escort (BF3 escort) and police-replacement measures are part of the core business. It has over 170 employees at several locations in Germany, and more than 115 escort vehicles. It highlights its use of innovative digital solutions - AGNES offers an intelligent map that contains the data of the 3D-Route-Scan vehicles of the company Sommer, with the help of which every single motorway kilometre was driven off, scanned and evaluated.
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