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“The state shoveled the grave of atomic energy”
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According to the physicist and philosopher Armin Grunwald, the pictures of the “civil war-like disputes” around the planned reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf (here on June 7, 1986) are among the “worst pictures that Germany sent into the world after the end of the Second World War”.
(Photo: Dreier / picture-alliance / dpa)
From Wackersdorf to “Die Wolke”: The physicist and philosopher Armin Grunwald explains why Germany is more concerned about nuclear power than its neighbors.
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Michael Bauchmüller, Berlin, and Karoline Meta Beisel, Munich
Many countries see nuclear power as the key to climate neutrality; France, for example, recently announced the construction of new piles, and Great Britain is also expanding. In Germany? Unthinkable, at least now. The physicist and philosopher Armin Grunwald is head of the Technology Assessment Office at the German Bundestag and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He can explain why Germans are more cautious than their neighbors when it comes to nuclear power.
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