Germany to switch off last remaining nuclear plants
The German government is phasing out nuclear power despite the energy crisis.
Germany is pulling the plug on its last three reactors on Saturday, 15 April, betting it will succeed in its green transition without nuclear power, Turanews.kz reports citing Euronews.
On the banks of the Neckar River, not far from Stuttgart in south Germany, the white steam escaping from the nuclear power plant in Baden-Württemberg will soon be a memory.
The same applies further east for the Bavarian Isar 2 complex and the Emsland complex, at the other end of the country, not far from the Dutch border.
While many Western countries depend on nuclear power, Europe’s largest economy is turning the page- even if the subject remains controversial until the end.
The invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 brought everything into question. Deprived of Russian gas, the flow of which was essentially interrupted by Moscow, Germany found itself exposed to the worst possible scenarios, from the risk of its factories being shut down to the risk of being without heating in the middle of winter.
