As a German I was educated in not being proud to be a German national or at least not to say it aloud because it is still strongly connected to bad things that happened in the past, but... I have to say, I'm quite proud that Germany is in the process of shutting down its atomic plants. This was a long process: starting in the 80s with huge public demonstrations, in the late 90s becoming an official plan of the government and despite struggling in the beginning of 2011 due to political change it got reinforced after the disaster happening in Japan.
I am a formal economic student and know about the advantages of atomic energy but I was never able to understand why nations would still go for it knowing about the horrible risks attached to it. There are two things which makes this energy source a total no-go. 1. The obvious risk of a meltdown and 2. the atomic waste lasting for nearly forever. In the 50s and 60s, atomic energy was considered a clean and efficient energy source but since 1986 we should know that it is highly dangerous not just for the country the plant is built in. After 60 years of use and research we should assume that it is unlikely that we find a solution to neutralize the left-overs and the pollution this "clean" energy source creates. It's a dead end and I can't understand why nations are still planning to build new plants instead of investing this billions of money in research to make renewable energy more efficient and longterm storable. In the long run it would be so much cheaper and so much safer. Can lobbyism be so much stronger than good human sense and judgement? How many human-made disasters we need to experience to make people in charge change their minds?
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