All three nuclear power plants are still open for a longer period in Germany

After weeks of coalition wrangling, German Chancellor Schulz decided to keep the third nuclear power plant open until April 15, 2023 at the latest. Previously, the nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony was to be closed on January 1, 2023.

Germany initially decided to shut down all three nuclear plants by the end of this year, but the energy crisis changed that. Last month The Cabinet decided to keep two nuclear power plants in the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany open until mid-April.

The coalition party, De Groene, opposed to nuclear energy, decided last weekend at the party congress that these two power plants should remain. In turn, coalition partner FDP demanded that the remaining three nuclear plants remain in operation until 2024 due to rising energy prices. The FDP also wants to reopen closed nuclear power plants if necessary.

Party leader Lang van de Groen called on Chancellor Schulz’s Social Democratic Party today to take a clearer position on the issue. With the decision to keep the three nuclear power plants open throughout the winter, Schulz took the lead. FDP leader Alder mentioned this Twitter Good news against the backdrop of the energy crisis.

Meanwhile, the dismantling than other German nuclear power plants. so called corn In 2011 after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. Fearing new accidents and problems with the storage of nuclear waste, the German government decided to stop using nuclear energy.