DV82XL said:

The bottom line is that the attitude of any given nation’s nuclear regulator is inversely proportional to the size and importance of the fossil fuel sector in that country.

It that isn’t a smoking gun in and of itself, I don’t know what is.

I don’t think the “Arthur Scargill” motive is so significant in Germany – isn’t much of German coal mining done on an open-cast basis? (NOT very good for job creation…)

I think it’s more likely that Germany had an extremely strong anti-nuclear-weapons movement (remember the old joke about “A tactical nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon which lands on Germany”) and that this subsequently fed into the anti-nuclear-power movement.

        drbuzz0 said:

…. that is clearly the SECOND worst example of government-sponsored misinformation and propaganda aimed at scapegoating ever to occur in modern German history

Indeed. It’s so shameless, it would have made even Goebbels proud.

Don’t forget that last March the head of this ministry, Sigmar Gabriel, emphatically explained to the press that Germany must build 8 to 10 new coal plants if they are going to phase out their nuclear fleet.

        drbuzz0 said:

Wow, that is clearly the worst example of government-sponsored misinformation and propaganda aimed at scapegoating ever to occur in modern German history….. uh….wait….ahem…. that is clearly the SECOND worst example of government-sponsored misinformation and propaganda aimed at scapegoating ever to occur in modern German history

I think you found the material needed for another Depleted Cranium post with this document.

It that isn’t a smoking gun in and of itself, I don’t know what is.

        drbuzz0 said:

Wow, that is clearly the worst example of government-sponsored misinformation and propaganda aimed at scapegoating ever to occur in modern German history….. uh….wait….ahem…. that is clearly the SECOND worst example of government-sponsored misinformation and propaganda aimed at scapegoating ever to occur in modern German history

Oh, I don’t know. Just because it hasn’t killed more people than “the final solution” [i]yet[/i] doesn’t mean it’s not going to eventually.

        BMS said:

Heh … If you think that the NRC is bad, you should take a look at Germany’s regulator and what they publish on their website. They even publish a little brochure (PDF, in German) with pictures.

Now there’s a regulator that Bruce can like.

Wow, that is clearly the worst example of government-sponsored misinformation and propaganda aimed at scapegoating ever to occur in modern German history….. uh….wait….ahem…. that is clearly the SECOND worst example of government-sponsored misinformation and propaganda aimed at scapegoating ever to occur in modern German history

        Jason Ribeiro said:

Wow, I don’t even read German and this seems like a biased document

Now that’s an understatement! The title page reads “Atomic power: an expensive wrong turn – the myth of the atomic economy”.

Anyone here who has a better knowledge of German than myself, who’d like to have a stab at preparing a counter-propaganda document?

        BMS said:

… They even publish a little brochure (PDF, in German) with pictures.

Now there’s a regulator that Bruce can like.

Wow, I don’t even read German and this seems like a biased document. It has themes of warning, danger and protest with the nuclear pictures and fun green valleys with wind turbines and solar panels. What happened to the German heritage that had a deep respect for science?

Now there’s a regulator that Bruce can like.