HELSINKI, Finland - Hours after Germany closed out its atomic era by turning off its last three nuclear reactors, the largest single reactor in Europe entered regular production in Finland, its operator said Sunday.
It was a banner day both good and bad for nuclear power in Europe. The continent's confusion over the future of its energy policy was on full display Sunday, as Europe's largest nuclear power plant was turned on in Finland just hours after Germany, the continent's biggest economy, formally shut down its last nuclear reactor. The striking juxtaposition comes as European
Heinz Smital (pictured) was a 24-year-old nuclear physics researcher when he first saw how far nuclear contamination could spread after the Chornobyl disaster in 1986. A few days after it occurred he waved a damp cloth out of a window at the University of Vienna to sample the city s air and was shocked by how […]