Fukushima's castastrophe was the eagerly awaited trigger to revive the
Tschnerobyl hype and to inflate it even larger. Public media activate panic emotions by apocalyptic coverage 24/7, the results being fear and rejection of nuclear power. Facts, causal coherencies and objectivity play no role by now, the public debate is emotional and ideological. Either you're one of the good ones, synonymical to
against nuclear power, or you're one of the bad ones. German politicians foster our public hype by changing their decisions from one minute to another.
Truth be told, Germany has a mental disease when it comes to the question of nuclear power. No other country got this sickness. One could say we're legally insane with respect to the question of nuclear power. Some activists and politicians want to dicate neighbouring countries like France or Switzerland how to handle their nuclear plants now. It's awkward. There're demonstrators with posters like
"Ban Atoms!"(sic!) and instrumentalized children of grown-up demonstrators who can't even pronounce
Atomkraftwerk.
The victory of the Green party in two federal states has been the direct result of Fukushima. The percentage of Green voters will diminish as the hype around Fukushima calms down. But right now, German politics and German media are nothing but one big mental asylum.
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