Abstract
Soon after the nuclear power plant industry reached relevant production levels in the late 1960s, serious environmental and safety concerns around the commercial use of nuclear energy were publicly brought forward in most Western nations, among them Germany, and have continued ever since. Internationally the industry’s life cycle has passed its production peak. The trend for years has been an almost continuous decline in nuclear power plant construction. The number of orders for new reactors world-wide peaked in 1974 and since then has decreased to pre-1965 levels (fig. 1). In 1996, for the first time, more capacity was decommissioned than put on line, beginning a decline in nuclear electricity production that has continued until the present (fig. 2).
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