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Guest: Harvey Wasserman – Author, Anti-Nuclear Activist solartopia@me.com http://nukefree.org
Topic: Germany Will Phase Out All Nuclear Energy by 2022
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has annonced a decision to phase out all nuclear energy in Germany by the end of 2022. It will, she underscored, by reliable, affordable and economical.
The proposal takes 8 of 17 nuclear plants offline now and 6 more by 2021.
Harvey Wasserman discusses the impacts of the decision stating and the future of nuclear power, which has taken severe blows in the wake of Fukushima.
About Harvey Wasserman:
Harvey Wasserman is author or co-author of a dozen books, including SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030, with a forward by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, with a forward by Howard Zinn. His full length poem GLIMPSE OF THE BIG LIGHT: LOSING PARENTS, FINDING SPIRIT, has a forward by Marianne Williamson, and was called "a knockout" by Kurt Vonnegut, all at www.harveywasserman.com