Siemens pulls out of nuclear industry - Germany goes green - but is it really because of Stuxnet?

[Magda Hassan]

I saw this good news that other day. In the wake of Fukushima Germany is abandoning nuclear power which is a good thing. But I was wondering given Seimen's involvement in the Stuxnet virus of Nuclear power plants if there may be other reasons to leave.... my bolding

Siemens pulls out of nuclear industry

Europe correspondent Rachael Brown
Posted September 19, 2011 06:46:08





























German industrial giant Siemens is pulling out of the nuclear industry in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster.
Siemens chief executive Peter Loescher has told a German newspaper the company has "closed the chapter" on building or financing nuclear plants.
"We will no longer be involved in overall managing of building or financing nuclear plants," Mr Loescher told the Der Spiegel weekly.
"We will from now on supply only conventional equipment such as steam turbines. This means we are restricting ourselves to technologies that are not only for nuclear purposes but can also be used in gas or coal plants."
Since the March nuclear disaster in Fukushima there has been heated debate in Germany about the safety of nuclear power.
The government has already switched off several of its Siemens-built reactors and it plans to phase out nuclear energy completely by 2022.