Dismantling Germany's nuclear industry, piece by piece

Dismantling Germany's nuclear industry, piece by piece Obrigheim, Germany (AFP) July 30, 2014 - Eyes fixed on a screen, joystick in hand, the operator of a remote-controlled saw painstakingly dismantles metal rods at one of Germany's mothballed nuclear reactors. Time-consuming and costly, the operation to methodically carve up the core of EnBW's Obrigheim reactor in the country's southwest is now more than half way through. In total, 275,000 tonnes of machinery, pipes and other equ ... more