{"id":41768,"date":"2019-12-01T06:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T06:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41768"},"modified":"2019-12-01T06:22:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T06:22:45","slug":"germany-is-closing-all-its-nuclear-power-plants-now-it-has-a-problem-with-deadly-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41768","title":{"rendered":"Germany is closing all its nuclear power plants. Now it has a problem with deadly waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>When it comes to the big questions plaguing the world&#8217;s scientists, they don&#8217;t get much larger than this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Where do you safely bury more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleanenergywire.org\/factsheets\/what-do-nuclear-waste-storage-question\" target=\"_blank\">28,000 cubic meters<\/a> &#8212; roughly six Big Ben clock towers &#8212; of deadly radioactive waste for the next million years?<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">This is the &#8220;wicked problem&#8221; facing Germany as it <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/16\/business\/mulheim-karlich-nuclear-power-plant-demolition-grm-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">closes all of its nuclear power plants<\/a> in the coming years, according to Professor Miranda Schreurs, part of the team searching for a storage site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)When it comes to the big questions plaguing the world&#8217;s scientists, they don&#8217;t get much larger than this.Where do you safely bury more than 28,000 cubic meters &#8212; roughly six Big Ben clock towers &#8212; of deadly radioactive waste for the next million years?This is the &#8220;wicked problem&#8221; facing Germany as it closes all of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}