From a 1971 West German bestseller evocatively titled Peaceably into Catastrophe: A Documentation of Nuclear Power Plants, to huge protests of hundreds of thousands—including the largest-ever ...

An elevator rattles down about a kilometre (3,000 feet) below ground in five minutes to reach Germany's nuclear necropolis, a ...

The change accelerated after the 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, which led Chancellor Angela Merkel to declare that Germany would shut all 17 of its own reactors by 2022.

Opponents of nuclear energy gathered for another protest in Lingen, Lower Saxony, on Saturday, 26 October, primarily opposing ...

A general view of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim, Germany, 15 April 2023. The last three nuclear plants Isar 2, Neckarwestheim 2 and Emsland will shut down on 15 April ...

Water vapor rises from the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim, Germany, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst,file) BONN, Germany (AP) — The German government dismissed calls ...

The former iron ore mine is to become the final resting place for waste from the atomic power plants that Europe’s top economy has shuttered over the past few years. Protests raged for decades in ...

In addition, the switch to renewables in electricity production meant that less energy is wasted, for example as heat in fossil power plants. Germany ... s electricity. Nuclear energy was phased ...

An elevator rattles down about a kilometre (3,000 feet) below ground in five minutes to reach Germany's nuclear necropolis ... waste from the atomic power plants that Europe's top economy has ...