STORY: The federal party conference of the Greens supports plans by Economics Minister Robert Habeck to enable the reserve operation of two nuclear power plants in southern Germany until spring 2023. At the delegates’ meeting in Bonn on Friday evening, a motion by grassroots representatives to allow neither an extension of the running time nor a stretching operation failed. Instead, the party congress supported the line of allowing the Isar II and Neckarwestheim II nuclear power plants to continue operating until April 15 at the latest with a clear majority. The Emsland nuclear power plant, on the other hand, should go offline at the end of 2022. However, there is still a dispute about this in the federal government. The FDP is calling for the Emsland nuclear reactor to continue to operate and for the service life to be extended beyond spring 2023. Habeck had previously asked the delegates for approval. The two nuclear reactors are not the solution in a stress scenario, but could make a contribution to stabilizing the power grid. “And that is the precise reason, the only and the precise reason why the nuclear power plants in southern Germany can make a contribution this winter. And because the gap is so large, we shouldn’t rule out this contribution from the outset. So little , so much. And that’s why I ask you, as the minister who is ultimately responsible for security of supply in Germany, to create this opportunity and thus approve the BuVo’s application. Thank you very much.” In the resolution, the Greens reject the procurement of new nuclear fuel elements: the party would not agree to any legal regulation in the Bundestag that would procure new fuel elements or the new enriched uranium required for this, it said.