The Japanese nuclear crisis has placed atomic energy back at the top of the political agenda throughout Europe. Perhaps the strongest defense of the fuel has come from the Czech Republic. Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas Tuesday night declared a German decision this week to shut down seven nuclear reactors a “cheap trick to make the public nervous.” A spokesman for Czech state-owned power company ČEZ Wednesday called a recent move the EU to “stress test” nuclear plants “a political phrase with no meaning.”
