Germany has announced that it will go nuke-free by the year 2022. Switzerland by 2034. On the other hand, France, Spain and the Czech Republic are forging ahead with partnerships and research. France is set to virtually corner the market on non-military nuclear energy production, research, and technology. Not that I think the Germans will successfully de-nuclearize. Economics won’t let them. I figure the only way they get off nuclear power is if riots over energy prices drag the whole country back in time to the point that they heat their homes with the flaming skulls of their enemies.
At the same time, demographics in France are such that if you have ever wanted to use that high school French you learned, you should probably hurry. Muslim immigration and first/second generation fertility are putting a distinctly middle-eastern face on increasingly nuclear France.
