Word: nuclearization
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...After leaving the Pentagon, McNamara spent 13 years tackling global poverty as the World Bank's president, exhibiting his characteristic devotion and confidence but delivering mixed results. He became heavily involved with efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation, and he spoke and traveled widely in his later life denouncing America's role and his own role in Vietnam. He even wrote a memoir indicting American policy in Vietnam and was featured in the acclaimed documentary...
...Kemfert says that public opinion still makes it impossible to build new nuclear plants in Germany, but advocates extending the life of newer plants for 40 to 50 years. "We have already spent $55 billion on them," she says. "Rather than having a sunk investment, we can use them as a bridge to buy time while we work on cleaning up coal, which provides 50% of electricity in Germany...
...Germany rolls back the phase-out, Gina Gillig, co-founder of Mothers Against Atomic Energy, worries that her decades of anti-nuclear activism will have been for nothing. "Many people still protest, but Chernobyl happened 23 years ago, and since then it has been a process of forgetting," says Gillig, whose two children were toddlers when the radioactive plume drifted over Germany from what was then the Soviet Union. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...even some of those who are old enough to remember Chernobyl and have lingering doubts about nuclear power still want to keep plants running, as they look at the bigger picture. An April poll by the Forsa Institute showed that 57% of all Germans consider atomic energy "dangerous or very dangerous." Of those aged 18 to 29, only 49% are worried about the safety of nuclear energy. Fears of a Chernobyl repeat have long dominated the nuclear debate in Germany, but Kemfert says the generation that has no memories of that infamous accident sees things differently. "Young people right...
...reopened only last month following a two-year shutdown after a transformer caught fire in 2007. Officials at operator Vatenfall Europe say Krümmel will stay offline for "several months" until they figure out what caused the latest short circuit. Whether Germany will pull the plug on the nuclear plant for good is up to the voters in September...