nuclear phase-out
Environment Minister Lemke is relieved to see the nuclear phase-out
Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke is relieved. photo
© Wolfgang Kumm/dpa
The three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany are to be shut down today. The Green politician welcomes the step: “The nuclear phase-out makes Germany safer”.
Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke looks with relief at the upcoming shutdown of the remaining nuclear power plants. “The nuclear phase-out makes Germany safer,” said the Green politician of the German Press Agency. “The risks of nuclear power are ultimately unmanageable in the event of an accident.”
According to the assessment of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (Base), there is also an argument in favor of the nuclear phase-out in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine: The radioactive elements are more securely protected from attacks and sabotage in repositories in deep geological layers than in a reactor or above-ground interim storage facility , according to a Base publication. “Concrete, barbed wire and security guards cannot replace storage in deep, stable geological formations for a long period of time,” said President Wolfram König.
Today the three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany are to be finally taken off the grid. This was actually supposed to happen at the end of last year. However, because of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the resulting energy crisis, the traffic light coalition decided last year to let the three reactors continue to run over the winter.