Thousands form human chain in protest against nuclear...

The explosion at the Japanese nuclear power plant has given new fuel to a long-running dispute in Germany, where tens of thousands demonstrated on Saturday against plans to extend the life of the country's nuclear power stations.




According to the police, some 50 000 people took part in the protest which saw a human chain spread from a nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim to the city of Stuttgart.




Those participating in the demonstration said it was time for the German government to move away from nuclear power.




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[petatsh]

@bbphnix nuclear waste and nuclear clouds dont stop at the german border

[deftone19]

@petatsh What does that mean? If Germany can get rid of nuclear Power, other countrys will follow. We will invent the technology forr enewable energy. We will make it work wolrd wide, and we have already started.

PS: Every shut down nuclear reactor is a reduction of the risk!

[mphello]

@98raza20 And many more impartial scientists and intelligent people know that nuclear power is not worth the costs. That is the view supported by Nicole Foss and Helen Caldicott. Check out greenman3610's videos.

You cannot get around the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

[98raza20]

@1189miles Yeah, but i'm still amazed by the fact anyone would be stupid enough to build a live nuclear facility in one of the geologically unstable places in the world, there should be some worldwide regulation against building nuclear facilities in geologically unstable places, although that would be unfair to countries without any territory that isn't geologically stable and they would oppose it, but as they say safety first.

[98raza20]

@mphello no many many impartial scientists and intelligent people have claimed that nuclear power is the way forward. You don't need to be a capitalist pig to support nuclear advancement. Nuclear is the most affordable, and cleanest, viable alternative to fossil. Nuclear power should be supported by renewable energy, because lets face it it's not affordable or viable to run a countries power demands on only renewable power, atleast yet. This view is supported by the Royal Society.

[mphello]

I agree: it is a totally unhelpful to the cause of shutting down nuclear plants to state "playing god". What BULLSHIT! There IS no "god". The universe never said we should or should not do anything. It's individual sentient beings who decide that. What we SHOULD or SHOULD NOT do SHOULD be based on basic FAIRNESS. NOTHING else matters.

e.g. I am all FOR bioengineering meat so animals don't need to be bred and killed.

[mphello]

Nuclear advocates still repeat the myth that they picked up from the internet that "nuclear power produces zero GHG emissions". BULLSHIT! Look at all the oil and coal that have to be burned to clean up shit like Chernobyl and Fukushima, let alone to move the waste around from plants that don't experience accidents to final grave, let alone to process the fuel!

Solar and wind can and should supply 99% of our electricity.

[mphello]

Only pro-corporate-welfarist, pro-elitist, pro-bankster fanatics support nuclear power.

[1189miles]

Bunch of ignorant idiots that dont know the facts! Oh yeah, lets shut down all the nuclear power plants in germany just incase we are subject to a 9.7earthquake and a 10metre Tstunami... It amazes me how clueless people are aloud to have such a dominent say..

[animalpolice]

I always thought Germans where badass... But they're not. Scared of nuclear powerplants... C'mon. Fukushima was destroyed by a TSUNAMI. There are no tsunami's in Germany.

[deftone19]

@H2O2finger Thats not true. The nuclear power station doest produce carbon emissions but getting the uranium does. And CO2 is not everything that is an environment factor. There is still the tons of nuclear waste that cant be stored properly and that will be dagernous für People, animal and Plants for thousands of yeahrs. In Germany we put that stuff in a Salt-stock. It yould reach the gorundwater now. Start thinking pal!

[ChaosCG]

@hosank

german tv station "phoenix" says, there was a third one in swiss. ^^