Germany Ensure Close Nuclear Reactor in 2022

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Germany pledged to shut down the entire center of the country's nuclear reactor. The decision was taken because the reflection of the events that occurred Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Fukushima, Japan, after the earthquake and tsunami hit last March.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany's nuclear reactors there are 17 centers that will be stopped operations in 2022 to come. "We want every country's energy production is based on the principles of safety," Markel said as quoted Dailymail, Tuesday, May 31, 2011.

Of 17 nuclear reactors, eight of whom are still forced to operate despite old age, seven closed temporarily after the earthquake and tsunami of Japan, and the rest still operate as usual. Please note, by 23 percent of the country's power supply comes from nuclear energy.

A year prior to the year 2022, Merkel has closed six units to ensure nuclear reactor. While the rest still remain operational until the final deadline as a backup energy supply security in the country.

To change the source of nuclear energy, Germany is developing the supply of electricity from wind, ocean wave, and solar energy.

That decision, of course, contrary to the vision of Germany to become the greenest countries in the world by way of using renewable energy sources and energy conservation on a large scale. To be environmentally friendly countries, nuclear power plants to be one answer because the pollution generated is smaller than fossil energy.

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