Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 18, 2011 @12:01PM from the picking-up-my-cooling-rods-and-going-home dept.

jones_supa wrote in with a link about the future of nuclear power in Germany. The story reads: "German industrial giant Siemens is turning the page on nuclear energy, the group's CEO Peter Löscher told the weekly Der Spiegel in an interview published on Sunday. The group's decision to withdraw from the nuclear industry reflects 'the very clear stance taken by Germany's society and political leadership.' Along with abandoning nuclear power, Germany wants to boost the share of the country's power needs generated by renewable energies to 35% by 2020 from 17% at present."

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Re:Lessor of two evils... by Pseudonym+Authority · 2011-09-18 12:48 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I think that a better question is ``Why the fuck doesn't Slashdot support Unicode already?''. Oh right, because of the stupid, lame argument that people might use it to make look-alike names. Well shit CmdrTaco, why not only permit ASCII only in the name field? A good compromise, no? It will stop people from unnecessarily looking like idiots, and stop making /. the laughing stock of all the major websites that have had support for Unicode since 2000.