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What I suspect will happen is more power will be imported from nations that flagrantly pollute the environment.

The Chinese might be on to something with putting the engineers in charge. Sometimes the public really doesn't know what the fuck they're doing, and should be completely ignored.

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China has stopped waterfront nuclear power station approvals:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-suspends-waterfront-n...

and suspended all other development: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/china.nuclea...

Don't believe everything the nuclear power fans tell you. Sometimes the engineers really do know what they are doing.

They're halting approvals until the safety standards have been revised. That's hardly the same thing.

I don't think Germany is surrounded by countries that flagrantly pollute the environment.

What is more likely is that more power will be imported from France, which massively use nuclear energy (>75% of the national electricity production), and doesn't intend (so far) to move to something else.

Um, have you SEEN what goes on in Eastern Europe?

It's inefficient to carry electricity over long distances, so I don't see Germany buying energy from say Ukraine. That said it seems that Poland is big on coal and crude oil...

My point exactly. From what I understand, reliance on Poland's (exceedingly dirty) coal-burning capacity is a big part of Germany's plan to wean itself off nuclear power.

Have you spent any significant length of time in China?

> and should be completely ignored.

How about: "and should be educated" (from ground up).

Ignored until they're educated.

Look at it from a different perspective: The engineers failed to convince society and have only themselves to blame.

With that reasoning, doctors only have themselves to blame for all the people who refuses vaccines because "it gives autism" ...

That's how it works in a democracy. If you want other people to do what you would like to do you have to convince them.

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