The trick is something else: Thoses power plants (they want to "shut-down" 7 as far as I know) won't be shut-down forever. They're just not active for a few months while security checks are being made and after that the politicans will come back and say that everything is fine and switch them back on. If the media has not already forgotten about that shit by then.

@Joozey: Well, so we can store the radioactive-waste in your basement? What I mean is: Sure we have no major earthquakes here. (there are smaller ones in some parts of germany) But nevertheless technology can fail and the amount of damage if a nuclear power plant fails is so much bigger than in any other case that you just cannot call it safe. Furthermore there is still no method of handling the radioactive-waste and store it in the future.