Nuclear Renaissance

A “NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE”…. In May 2020, a German utility detonated explosive charges and brought down both cooling towers at the Philippsburg nuclear power plant — a fully viable 1,402 MW station that had been switched off by law just five months prior, on New Year’s Eve 2019, in a Green-governed state. Five years later, for an encore: 600 kg of TNT, threaded through 1,800 boreholes, brought down the two towers of Gundremmingen in front of 30,000 spectators in Bavaria. Billed as a “visible symbol of Germany’s nuclear exit,” it was purely theatrical, as the reactors had been dead for years.

Article by Ryan Duffy. Read the full piece here.