🇩🇪 The closure of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power plants is scheduled for mid-April 2023.

They were supposed to be shut down last autumn, but due to concerns about the instability of electricity production, it was decided to extend their operation through the winter season.

The final decision to phase out all nuclear power plants in Germany, as you may know, was made after the accident at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. In this respect, Germany differed from France, another large EU country with a high share of nuclear energy in total energy production. France limited itself to taking measures to strengthen safety control at its nuclear power plants, but decided not to shut down the plants themselves. Germany, under pressure from public opinion, did otherwise.

Until now, as is known, only two countries have completely abandoned nuclear energy. They are Italy after the 1987 referendum, around the time of Chernobyl’s peak in risk society awareness. And Lithuania, where the closure of the Soviet nuclear power plant with Chernobyl-style RBMK reactors was one of the conditions for joining the EU. Germany will be the third, and, as it seems today, the last one.

Oleg Barabanov, Valdai Club programme director, writes on the shutdown of Germany's nuclear power industry.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/shutdown-of-germany-s-nuclear-power-industry/

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