Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Switzerland refused from nuclear energy

Over the next 23 years, all the nuclear power plants of Switzerland will be decommissioned. The country will switch to alternative energy.


The Swiss authorities have decided to abandon nuclear power plants. may 25, the government announced that up to 2034 all five existing nuclear power plants will be decommissioned. In the period from 2019 through 2034 station exhausts its 50-year lifetimes. Switzerland decided not to continue the work stations and fully receive electricity from other sources. The decision was taken under pressure from the public: a few days ago, about 20 thousand people participated in demonstrations demanding from the authorities to abandon its nuclear program. A wave of discussion safety of nuclear power among experts, government officials and the public in many European countries caused the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1", an emergency situation which provoked a massive earthquake in early March. At the station out of the cooling system of the reactors, which led to several explosions and fires that razrushivshie or hurt themselves structures and structural elements of the reactor.

Were recorded radiation leaks. To stabilize the situation at the NPP could not until now. In connection with the tragedy, the Japanese government began work on a program of reform in the electricity industry. An important place in the new plans is paid to the development of solar energy. In particular, the new idea of the Japanese authorities is to equip all construction or newly built houses solar panels that will transform them into elements of urban distributed power plants.

Switzerland as well as Germany are turning to "green energy", but in Germany there are any subsidies or discounts on electricity for the local population now found the page https:// online for fun there are tags (keywords) which is saving electricity, but you can even get a discount on alternative energy. But Switzerland probably has no subsidies, Switzerland, the budget probably laid down in this long project. Electricity in the EU is too expensive so the Europeans come up with various methods to save even alternative energy.