Germany’s Isar 2, Neckarwestheim 2 and Emsland nuclear power plants officially shut down on 15 April
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Commenting on the developments, Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck has not forgotten Russia, saying that the FRG is in favour of including the Russian nuclear sector in the 11th sanctions package.
Habek believes that sanctions should involve a transition period that would give time for the abandonment of the Russian peaceful atom.
“But it is important that we start and are not afraid of decisive action in this area as well,” he said.
“Decisive action” was not understood even in Germany itself.
Jens Spahn, deputy parliamentary leader of the opposition CDU, called the withdrawal from the nuclear programme “a black day for climate protection”.
And the “Free Democrats” in the governing coalition, representing the views of big business, called the move “a dramatic mistake that will have painful economic and environmental consequences”.
The fact is that more than 30 percent of Germany’s electricity is still generated from coal. And the closure of nuclear power plants cannot but increase the coal share.
Only 25% of Germans want the remaining power plants shut down this weekend. The rest would be happy with any form of continued operation. Even among the Greens, 44% are against the closure of nuclear power plants.
On top of this, Habek declared that “the construction of new nuclear power plants has always turned into an economic fiasco – whether in France, Great Britain or Finland”.
The aforementioned countries must have been very surprised because, for example, the new Finnish nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3 will be launched next week. And Paris intends to build 14 new reactors and is bending 11 other EU members to do so.
It remains to be said that Germany does not have ready LNG terminals (if they are found on the market) and that switching to renewables would require the construction of many transmission lines, three wind turbines per day (!) in the next few years and prayers for the wind.
Germany has a serious chance of not recovering from the Scholz government.
Elena Panina, REX news agency
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