2019
BERLIN -- The cooling tower of a former nuclear power plant next to the Rhine River in Germany that was online for just 13 months has been demolished, 31 years after it stopped producing electricity.
Remote-controlled excavators on Friday removed pillars that supported the tower at the Muelheim-Kaerlich plant, near Koblenz. The tower, whose top half had already been removed by a specially designed robot, collapsed under its own weight in a cloud of dust a couple of hours later.
Muelheim-Kaerlich was switched off in September 1988 after 13 months in service when a federal court ruled the risk of earthquakes in the area hadn't been taken into account sufficiently. After a lengthy legal battle, demolition started in 2004. Operator RWE says nearly all radioactive material had already been removed by then.
Because a blast was out of the question, the 162 meters high cooling tower of the former Mülheim-Kärlich nuclear power plant was cleared from above with a remote-controlled excavator piece by piece. After falling below a height of approx. 80 meters, a demolition excavator finally brought the cooling tower down from the ground on August 9, 2019.
Due to a faulty building permit procedure, the nuclear power plant was only in operation for about two years. <<< What a fucking waste of money.- Irish
But we all know that no waste of resources, natural, human or otherwise, is too great a sacrifice to make to the Green Energy Gods.
ReplyDeleteHow many earthquakes did it survive before being dismantled?
ReplyDelete"All of them"? Or, "Still waiting for the first one"?
DeleteNone. There are no significant quakes there.
DeleteHuman stupidity truly knows no bounds.
ReplyDeleteHuman stupidity truly knows no bounds. Because it’s stupid!
ReplyDeleteThe difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has a limit.
Delete"Faulty building procedure" = green activists took it down in court. Paperwork can be corrected. Mitigation can be designed. This was pure anti-nuke activism flexing its muscles.
ReplyDeletedidn't the Greens begin in Germany? Didn't they begin vicious, agressive "protests" many years ago when they were considered to be Soviet operatives?
ReplyDeleteNo one ever mentions the amount of labor hours the guys put in to build it. Pissed right down the drain
ReplyDeleteI suspect the Chinese Communist Party has been behind the green movement all along. Score is likely something like 10,000:1. How much more are we going to take?
ReplyDeleteNY did the same thing with the Shoreham nuclear power plant. Government has no place in making these decisions. I can't wait till they abolish internal combustion engines in favor of windpower and electricity. What idiots.
ReplyDeleteLong ago, Nikola Tesla had a laboratory very close to where the Shoreham Nuclear plant was later located.
DeleteIndian point now too. 40% of the electricity for nyc. Shut down.
DeleteGermans politicians, and EU politicians in general, haven't the brains to come in out of the rain. Not only did they build a nuke plant on a fault line, ala Diablo Canyon in Califruitopia, they then shut it down most likely without checking when that fault line was last active AND if it posed a real threat by measuring the stresses within the fault. When was the last time anyone, outside of Italy where there are several active volcanoes, has reported or even heard of an earthquake in continental EU?
ReplyDeleteNow, when they really need the electric generating capacity, they demolish the plant's cooling capacity. Yeh it appears from the article that this is a long standing plan, but WTF. Yet another knee jerk reaction by an EU country to a problem that happened on the other side of the world. Real, REAL smart.
Then to compound the idiocracy, they contract with a lunatic; whose stated life goal is restore the Soviet Union to its former glory, for the energy to power their economies because some teen aged truant yelled them.
Then, after becoming dependent on the lunatic, they impose SANCTIONS on the lunatic expecting him NOT TO RETALIATE.
Oh, you don't think EU politicians are a bunch of dumbasses? I point you towards their attempt, at the beginning of last decade, to regulate the curve in bananas. That should tell you all you need to know.
As Victoria Nuland; the EU ambassador during the Obuttface administration so vociferously said, FUCK THE EU.
Nemo
They should play this video in a non stop loop on a t.v. in the "Warming Huts" they are setting up in Germany to krep people warm this winter. This place can't burn fast enough
ReplyDeleteThey used to be industrious people, got neutered after the war.
ReplyDeleteThe madness isn't restricted to Europe, the US has its own share of nuclear power plant follies. For example, Marble Hill was abandoned after 2.5 billion was spent and i was half complete. Even worse, Shoreham was complete, ran at 5% power, then was shut down, after 6 billion was spent on it.
ReplyDeleteMarble Hill had shoddy construction. The containment concrete was riddled with voids. A father of one of my classmates worked there and he told her they’d never find all the holes to fix.
DeleteZimmer outside Cincinnati was all but finished. During an NRC audit, they found some 1,000,000 missing QA documents that would have showed construction met code.
Just bad construction processes, both of them. Not just anyone can build one of these plants.
They must've done it for the children.
ReplyDeletethese mo rons deserve the frozen azzez they will have. Bovine scatology will not keep you warm
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