German Chancellor Angela Merkel has just decreed a before and after for the European atomic energy after the tragedy of Japan. Having extended the life of the 17 German nuclear plants 12 years, until 2040, German Chancellor gives a shift in energy policy and has announced the suspension of the extension and set a new deadline of three months which will involve an kind of lull.
During this period, there will be "further reviews of security with new standards" and these are carried out "without any taboo." "After those three months we will enter a new situation and take the final decisions are necessary," warned Merkel, after inviting the German company to open an "honest debate" on nuclear energy.
"Japan is a country with the highest standards of safety and after seeing what happened there can not continue with the next item on the day as if nothing had happened," he said in a press conference in which he appeared supported by your partner coalition, the leader of the liberal FDP Weterwelle Guido.
"We've all seen those pictures and what happened will have apocalyptic consequences for Europe and particularly for Germany. The first will be the new safety review has been commissioned to an independent commission that will serve to establish new principles, "said the chancellor, who recalled that always has referred to nuclear energy as an energy bridge .
Furthermore, Merkel has insisted that the cooling system of the reactors has emerged as a focus of security problems that should be studied in detail. "The first is the safety of our citizens," he concluded. The independent inspection which relates Merkel has begun this morning in the central of Neckarwestheim in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany in the elections held on 27 March and in which the environment minister, Tanja Gönner , that as part of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has announced that "if security problems are detected, the central activity can be stopped even before that date." At the gates of the plant are protesters antinuclear since Saturday and today there are convened more than 130 protests in various parts of Germany.
Social Democrats, Socialists and Greens call for the immediate closure of seven reactors older and the revocation of the life extension of nuclear power remaining. After three months duration, Merkel could reverse its own decision to extend the transition energy, while German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, has warned that "it is impossible for the German economy without energy nuclear in the short term.
" Germany is not the only country that has moved after what happened in Japan. Switzerland has decided to suspend its nuclear renewal and requested a review of existing security measures. After a meeting with a large group of experts, the Minister of Energy and the Environment, Doris Leuthard, decided to stop the authorization to build three new plants in the alpine country, where 40% of the energy is nuclear.
Plans to build new power plants will be interrupted until it has ensured the safety of the five existing Leuthard said although there is no reason for concern. Until we are ready for new security measures are not given permission for the construction of new plants, but analysts believe the government will keep the brake depressed until the referendum planned for 2013 on the nuclear issue.
In turn, the Austrian Environment Minister, Nikolaus BERLAKOVICH has called on his European colleagues have carried out tests to stress that there are nuclear plants in the EU to assess the degree of security offered in case of disasters such as occurred in Japan. 
During this period, there will be "further reviews of security with new standards" and these are carried out "without any taboo." "After those three months we will enter a new situation and take the final decisions are necessary," warned Merkel, after inviting the German company to open an "honest debate" on nuclear energy.
"Japan is a country with the highest standards of safety and after seeing what happened there can not continue with the next item on the day as if nothing had happened," he said in a press conference in which he appeared supported by your partner coalition, the leader of the liberal FDP Weterwelle Guido.
"We've all seen those pictures and what happened will have apocalyptic consequences for Europe and particularly for Germany. The first will be the new safety review has been commissioned to an independent commission that will serve to establish new principles, "said the chancellor, who recalled that always has referred to nuclear energy as an energy bridge .
Furthermore, Merkel has insisted that the cooling system of the reactors has emerged as a focus of security problems that should be studied in detail. "The first is the safety of our citizens," he concluded. The independent inspection which relates Merkel has begun this morning in the central of Neckarwestheim in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany in the elections held on 27 March and in which the environment minister, Tanja Gönner , that as part of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has announced that "if security problems are detected, the central activity can be stopped even before that date." At the gates of the plant are protesters antinuclear since Saturday and today there are convened more than 130 protests in various parts of Germany.
Social Democrats, Socialists and Greens call for the immediate closure of seven reactors older and the revocation of the life extension of nuclear power remaining. After three months duration, Merkel could reverse its own decision to extend the transition energy, while German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, has warned that "it is impossible for the German economy without energy nuclear in the short term.
" Germany is not the only country that has moved after what happened in Japan. Switzerland has decided to suspend its nuclear renewal and requested a review of existing security measures. After a meeting with a large group of experts, the Minister of Energy and the Environment, Doris Leuthard, decided to stop the authorization to build three new plants in the alpine country, where 40% of the energy is nuclear.
Plans to build new power plants will be interrupted until it has ensured the safety of the five existing Leuthard said although there is no reason for concern. Until we are ready for new security measures are not given permission for the construction of new plants, but analysts believe the government will keep the brake depressed until the referendum planned for 2013 on the nuclear issue.
In turn, the Austrian Environment Minister, Nikolaus BERLAKOVICH has called on his European colleagues have carried out tests to stress that there are nuclear plants in the EU to assess the degree of security offered in case of disasters such as occurred in Japan.
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