It was a banner day — both good and bad — for nuclear power in Europe.
The continent’s confusion over the future of its energy policy was on full display Sunday, as Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was turned on in Finland just hours after Germany, the continent’s biggest economy, formally shut down its last nuclear reactor.
Finland’s state-of-the-art Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor went online Sunday after months of operating delays. The plant by itself provides nearly a seventh of Finland’s power needs and is expected to producing electricity for “at least for the next 60 years,” operator TVO said in a statement. By contrast, Germany has stuck to a pledge made more than a decade ago to get out of nuclear power altogether, a decision by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in reaction to the devastation at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan when it was hit by a tsunami in March 2011.
Anti-nuclear reactors held celebratory events outside the now-shuttered plants and in Berlin, The Associated Press reported.
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