Apr 14, 2023 - Nuclear phase-out: A bad idea in times of climate protection and energy scarcity?
At the end of March, Germany`s Environment Minister Steffi Lemke of the Green Party used just a few words to put an end to the dispute that has kept the country in suspense for years: "The risks of nuclear power are ultimately uncontrollable; that`s why the nuclear phase-out makes our country safer, and avoids more nuclear waste." Last year, the government found itself once again caught up in a dispute over nuclear power. In their coalition agreement, the governing SPD, Greens, and the FDP had agreed to stick to Germany`s nuclear phase-out, which was decided under Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2011. Accordingly, the last nuclear power plants were to close at the end of 2022.