Germany has three nuclear power plants still in operation but they are due to be shut down by the end of this year
. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition has grappled with whether to keep them running to counter the effects of soaring gas prices and decades-high inflation following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Scholz’s predecessor, Angela Merkel, had initiated legislation to end nuclear power after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. Keeping the plants running would be unpopular with the Greens, Scholz’s coalition partner, whose opposition to atomic power is deep-rooted. Separately, the chief of utility E.ON said he saw no technical obstacles to the safe continued operation of his group’s Isar 2 nuclear power plant – one of the two singled out by the stress test – beyond the end of the year.
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