First, based on a comparison of countries average development indicator values over time, we descriptively explore which socio-economic, environmental and technological factors characterize the spectrum of countries following different 'nuclear energy strategies' (no nuclear production, phase-out, planning to produce, produce nuclear energy).
More importantly, the Energiewende transformation is reconfiguring Germany's power generating capacity, with a nuclear phase-out planned by 2022 and a renewables roll-out that is slated to provide 35-40% of electricity by 2025, rising to 55-60% by 2035 and at least 80% by 2050.
Beauty and personal care company Avon announced in April its own phase-out plan.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pushed for restarts since taking office in December, freezing the previous government's nuclear phase-out plan.
Other states such as Hawaii, cities such as Seattle and New York, and corporations such as Amazon and Starbucks are also considering or have initiated plastic phase-out plans.
Her government is now working to pass legislation that would shutter those plants permanently and reinstate phase-out plans for the rest.
It might also mean Russia and China, rather than Japan and France, would take the lead in nuclear technology.These pressures help explain why the government's phase-out plans contain a hint of ambiguity.
In their successful fight to defeat Bush's social security phase-out plan, the Democrats were right to exploit people's fear of destitution in old age because the Bush plan would have made that fear more likely to be realized.
The phase-out plan could recede even further if Mr Noda's Democratic party of Japan is ousted in an election early next year, which polls suggest is likely.
Under the nuclear phase-out plan, the nation's 10 oldest reactors will be retired by 2030 as their operational lifecycles expire one by one.
The implementation of this income-tax phase-out plan would give Arizona's economy a welcome boost – and give Nevada a serious run for its money.
