Getting rid of a German nuclear plant, one rivet at a time

Getting rid of a German nuclear plant, one rivet at a time
Lubmin, Germany (AFP) Aug 7, 2011 - In Germany, where all nuclear power reactors are to close by 2022, clean-up work at one such plant still continues after 15 years, a sign of how long a real end to the atomic age here will take. The Lubmin plant on the Baltic coast was home to five of East Germany's six nuclear reactors and supplied 10 percent of the communist country's electricity when it was taken off the grid in 1990 foll ... more