After the compromise on extending the life of German nuclear power plants, the CDU and FDP want more. There is a threat of a new, never-ending nuclear power debate.
The cabinet only spoke for four minutes about the amendment to the Atomic Energy Act, says Economics Minister Robert Habeck. Then the proposed law was passed in the Bundestag on Friday: the three remaining German nuclear power plants may continue to operate until April 2023. Anyone who hopes that the nuclear phase-out will finally be sealed next spring and that everything will then focus on the expansion of renewable energies is likely to be disappointed. The return of the nuclear power knights is imminent. Their demands from the mothball of the nuclear age are just picking up steam again.