The nuclear shutdown plus the caprices of wind and sun could play havoc with electricity supplies unless new infrastructure is built quickly, warn the power companies.
ON, had been threatening to sue the government over the levy even before the nuclear power shutdown plan was announced.
The 3.11.2011 disaster, and especially the Fukushima nuclear disaster and resulting nationwide nuclear plant shutdown, are a big part of the reason.
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They are clamoring for a complete shutdown of nuclear power generation.
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The twin disasters resulted in various nuclear power plants being shutdown.
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Notwithstanding the shutdown of many nuclear plants, fairly moderate energy-saving and load-shifting measures have been enough to avert severe service interruptions.
On April 1st RWE, which runs five nuclear plants, challenged the shutdown in a court in Hesse, a state which is home to two of them.
The suspension is also likely to lead to a temporary shutdown of one nuclear plant operated by German utility EnBW AG, and if continued, may force another owned by RWE AG offline, at least temporarily, this year.
However Germany's nuclear industry has argued that an early shutdown would be hugely damaging to the country's industrial base.
In April 2009, a control rod the shutdown device used to stop the nuclear reaction in a plant's core malfunctioned in Reactor No. 3 due to a leaking valve.
Driving this is the continued shutdown of all but two of Japan's nuclear reactors following the disaster at the Fukushima plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
"This appears to be a fairly straightforward shutdown, " said Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Solid nuclear fuel like that used at Fukushima-Daiichi can melt and release radioactive materials if not cooled consistently during shutdown.
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