…and ends an era which once was characterised by the promise of abundant cheap energy that was shattered during the disaster at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 and buried after Fukushima-Daiichi in 2011. Nuclear energy in this Central European country has always been a contested issue, and the scale of it made it inevitableContinue reading “Today Germany quits nuclear power…”
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Twelve Years Fukushima
11 March 2011 (in brief “3/11”) turned out to be a crucial date for Japan and the Pacific Region. On this Thursday afternoon, at 2.46 pm local time, Japan’s east coast fell victim to the Tōhoku earthquake. The earth shook for several minutes, with its epicentre laying about 370 km from Tokyo in the PacificContinue reading “Twelve Years Fukushima”
Achim Klüppelberg 