Germany Will Close Troubled Nuclear Plant
The last of eastern Germany’s trouble-ridden nuclear power plants will close this weekend on completion of a substitute oil-powered station, energy officials said Tuesday.
Officials will close the fourth and last reactor at the Greifswald plant, which once provided 10% of former Communist-ruled East Germany’s energy needs but did not meet safety standards in the new united country.
The other three reactors, as well as a smaller plant at Rheinsberg, closed earlier this year.
Environment Ministry spokeswoman Monika Litwin said the new oil-powered station would come on line Saturday and take over the Greifswald area’s heating and electricity needs.
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