{"id":357462,"date":"2011-04-01T09:45:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T09:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/01\/german-state-sued-by-nuclear-firm\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T09:45:45","slug":"german-state-sued-by-nuclear-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/german-state-sued-by-nuclear-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"German state sued by nuclear firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"47.860711582135\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>1 April 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>05:45 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>German energy giant RWE is taking legal action against the state of Hesse after being ordered to shut down a nuclear power plant for three months.<\/p>\n<p>The order came soon after an earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear emergency in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>RWE said the reactors were safe so the state had no reason to disrupt its energy generating activities.<\/p>\n<p>The company also said the state of Hesse had no legal authority to order it to close the Biblis nuclear plant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to RWE&#8217;s legal interpretation, the government has no grounds to its legal basis to take measures according to paragraph 19 of nuclear law,&#8221; RWE said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Biblis plant was shut down as part of an industry-wide moratorium after German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered additional safety checks on Germany&#8217;s seven oldest nuclear power plants following the crisis in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has also reached agreement on &#8220;stress tests&#8221; of all European nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n<p>E.On, a rival to RWE, said it would not challenge the decision.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/business-12933596\" title=\"German state sued by nuclear firm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German state sued by nuclear firm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 April 2011 Last updated at 05:45 ET German energy giant RWE is taking legal action against the state of Hesse after being ordered to shut down a nuclear power plant for three months. The order came soon after an earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear emergency in Japan. RWE said the reactors were safe so the state had no reason to disrupt its energy generating activities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>German state sued by nuclear firm - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/german-state-sued-by-nuclear-firm\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"German state sued by nuclear firm - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"1 April 2011 Last updated at 05:45 ET German energy giant RWE is taking legal action against the state of Hesse after being ordered to shut down a nuclear power plant for three months. 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