The World - News from June 7, 1989

West Germany scrapped plans for a costly nuclear power plant, and two firms in Munich said they will build a solar-cell factory on the site. The decision not to build the controversial facility at Wackersdorf, in Bavaria, had been expected, since utilities had backed out of it for cost reasons. Siemens, an electronics company, and Bayernwerk, a utility firm, said they will invest $50 million in the solar-cell facility, which will employ about 400 people and produce 20 megawatts of power annually, beginning in the early 1990s.