It's a knee jerk reaction from publicity conscious moguls (and some politicians).

In twenty years time nuclear will be as strong as ever.

Until a cheaper/better/cleaner method comes along there is no alternative to meeting the increasing need for electrical power.

Nuclear will undoubtedly be the mainstay of world-wide power generation for decades to come.

Just because Germany, with a very vocal and fairly powerful Green Party has overreacted to the Japanese incident does not for one minute mean that Nuclear power has had its day.

Sustainable energy sources quite simply cannot generate sufficient power, fossil fuels are running out and produce large quantities of greenhouse gases.

I'm wondering how susceptible Germany is to earthquakes and tsunamis. Last time I checked there are no major fault lines under the North Sea that would cause the kind of "perfect storm" (I hate that term, but the press love it) that did for the Fukushima plant.

Remember there have been no deaths as a direct result of the fate that befell Fukushima, the safety systems acted just as they should, but unfortunately the tsunami wrecked both the back-up generator for the pumps, and the back-up generator for the back-up generator, and the third line back-up UPS batteries only ran for a few hours as they're just meant to cover for that long whilst waiting for fuel for the two generators.

johndrew

Work is being carried out to develop nuclear fusion, but at the moment more power has to be used during the process than is generated.

http://www.physorg.com/news108035191.html