Siemens announces the abandonment of the nuclear business
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The President of the German Siemens, Peter Löscher, Technology Consortium has announced in a statement carried Sunday by the weekly Der Spiegel the total abandonment of the nuclear business by his group.
“This chapter is closed to us,” says Löscher, whose company has been involved for decades in the construction of power stations and nuclear installations around the world.
The decision, says the head of Siemens, is “the answer” your company “to the clear positioning of the society and politics in Germany for the abandonment of nuclear energy” after the catastrophe of Fukushima, in Japan.
Löscher considers critical the decision before the summer by the Bundestag adopted the nuclear switch in Germany for the 2022 and go until then closing all nuclear plants in this country.
No more atomic power plants be built
Siemens President noted that his group will cease from now participate in the construction of complete atomic power stations and that it will continue to only building components for turbines that are also used in conventional power plants.
It also announces the end of the project of a society’s joint venture with the Russian nuclear Consortium Rosatom, with which he hopes that, despite everything, you can work “in other fields”.
Löscher valued as “project of the century” agreed energy change in Germany and considered “feasible” the goal of raising up to 35% of production from organic and alternative sources energy until 2020.
In addition, expressed its full support to the policy of the federal Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to deal with the crisis in the euro zone.
“We fully support the enlargement of the European integration and European goals of the federal Chancellor”, underlines the boss of Siemens, who sees no danger of the euro area to break down: “That’s not going to happen.” “I am completely convinced”.
In Spain, the company has participated in the construction of different nuclear power stations as generators for several units of the nuclear Almaraz (Cáceres) in 2009.
5:36 pm
Years ago they got fined for dumping nuke waste in fertilizer. Ronnie Rayguns team came up with the idea of hazardous waste as fertilizer. They built fertilizer plants next to hazardous waste producers. Poisons and heave metals went thru the magic valve and were made into fertilizers. Cradle to grave tracking of hazardous waste problem solved. There was a big protest that hit macdonalds- WANT LEAD WITH THOSE FRIES?
5:59 am
How does this affect the US reactor plants. Didn’t Siemans run some here?