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German Nuclear: Green is good Politics / William C. Ramsay, IFRI Edito Energie, 26 mai 2011http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&#38;id=6619In polarized politics, the voter must take on faith the wisdom inherent  in the principled political position.  Who cannot be impressed by the  nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima, especially after living through the fallout from Chernobyl?  But is it reasonable to send the voter to the  booth with only half the information?  Does the German voter have any  idea what it means to shut down its nuclear power in just ten years?   Have German politicians made any effort to tell them?  Nuclear plants  supply 25% of German electricity with virtually no carbon footprint and  with a minimum exposure to foreign suppliers of nuclear fuel cycle services unlike the German vulnerability to disruptions in oil and more  recently gas supplies...