from the 80's, but things haven't changed...

german bureaucracy!!


"The last nuclear plant completed in West Germany, Grafenrheinfeld in Bavaria, took 10 years to finish. It was commissioned earlier this year. The number of engineering hours required for this plant, the fourth 1300 MW nuclear plant completed in the Federal Republic, was 250 per cent higher than for the first 1300 MW plant, Biblis in Hesse. The primary documentation needed for Biblis A, commissioned in 1974, was 60,000 pages long. For Grafenrheinfeld the documentation reached 240,000 pages. "