In response to intense public pressure after the Japanese nuclear disaster, the Bundestag has voted to shut down all nuclear power plants in Germany by 2022. Those plants now provide 23% of Germany's electric power, and the country will have to increase use of fossil fuels, buy more electricity from neighboring countries, or get very serious about renewable energy sources.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/30/germany-to-shut-nuclear-reactors
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