Nuclear damages sought by E.On

Damages sought by E.ON AG from the enforced shutdown of nuclear power stations total 8 billion euros , a company spokesman said on Wednesday. He added the company assumed a case brought to the German constitutional ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Damages sought by E.ON AG from the enforced shutdown of nuclear power stations total 8 billion euros ($9.97 billion), a company spokesman said on Wednesday.

Cross-Posted from Washington’s Blog. There has been a tremendous amount of voodoo science pushing the claim that radiation isn’t harmful.  (It is.)

In the wake of the 11 March nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima nuclear power complex, the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to shutter the country’s nuclear power plants, which in turn has increased Berlin’s interest in renewable energy sources. Merck KGaA, a multinational pharmaceutical and chemical group is displaying its newest components of a solar power system at the 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition in Hamburg.

German power suppliers are suing the government for 15 billion euros ($19 billion) in damages over the decision to abandon nuclear power, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Wednesday.The country's biggest power utility E.ON, alone, wants at least 8.0 billion euros, the newspaper said, without revealing its sources.