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This is the nuclear power plant in Muehlheim-Kaerlich, just 10km away from the place i was born. The construction was finished in 1986, but after two years of running it was switched off due to a false planning and construction permission. Earthquakes in this area could have occured, so it was never switched on again and it is scheduled to be taken down in 2014.
Of course, i am influenced by the events in Japan regarding Fuskushima. Only now i am truly understanding what a nuclear meltdown can actually cause. I could have understood it earlier, much earlier. Tschernobyl happened when i was six years old, to young to understand and later on maybe i never really wanted to realise what happened there or why people continued to demonstrate against nuclear power in germany over decades since the early 70s. only now i get a sense of its possible destructive and deadly force. I only need to imagine what could have happened if the plant next to my hometown had a meltdown during its two years of running time in the mid 80's. I could have run over by a car too, but nonetheless....