Germans still schizoid about nuke power

While Chancellor Merkel has the foresight to realize that Germany needs an increasing amount of energy and that major contributions from renewables are A Long Way Off, the citizenry is protesting it -- and using a nuclear waste shipment to focus the energy of their protests.

Part A:
"Under a previous government, Germany decided in 2000 to switch off the last of the country's reactors by around 2020, but Chancellor Angela Merkel intends to keep nuclear power until the mid 2030s."

Part B:
"The shipment [of radioactive waste] may have arrived but the government is further than ever from its aim of getting people in Germany to accept nuclear power," Florian Kubitz from protest group Robin Wood said.

{OK, Robin Wood, there's a joke there... sorry}

Part C:
"The protests in Gorleben show ... Merkel has in fact won little with her nuclear policy and lost a lot politically," the influential news magazine Spiegel said on its website."

But just imagine what mandatory blackouts would do to public sentiment!