Again, a fire broke out in a generator transformer SOURCE - just like in 2007. Watch Vattenfall’s press conference online HERE
Emergency shut-down was and is the consequence. The reactor is now provided by external power grid. Federal environment minister Sigmar Gabriel now wants to put all atomic power plants under federal supervision. German chancelor Angela Merkel believes in Vattenfall. This is part of Angela Merkel’s history:
Angela Merkel was environment minister in the mid 90ies. Back in the days she allowed atomic waste to be dumped into Morsleben (Source) – which was a bad idea. The public was not good enough informed about that – according to sources of german television ZDF and the Federal Agency for Radiation Protection (web).
According to Vattenfalls CEO Hans-Jürgen Cramer the company lost 100,000 customers in 4 months to competitors in 2007. Source
These may be some reasons:
# Fire in Vattenfalls atomic reactor “Krümmel” – June 28th 2007
# Vattenfall and the fire in a German atomic power plant – July 6th 2007
# New problems in the atomic power plant “Krümmel” – July 10th 2007
# Police search in atomic power plant “Krümmel” – July 13th 2007
# Vattenfall – 3rd shutdown of “Brunsbüttel” reactor in 4 weeks – July 18th 2007
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