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Where is Bavarian energy policy headed?
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The cooling tower of the Isar 2 nuclear power plant in Essenbach near Landshut: The plant was actually supposed to be shut down at the end of the year. But at least the technical planning for an extension of the operating time is underway.
(Photo: Sebastian Beck)
In terms of dependence on fossil fuels in Bavaria, not much has changed in recent decades. It is still only possible with oil, gas and coal. And electricity has to be bought from abroad. How should this continue?
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Sebastian Beck, Maximilian Gerl, Andreas Glas and Christian Sebald, Landshut
It was a hot summer day when the Isar 2 nuclear power plant was officially inaugurated on July 20, 1988. But it wasn’t just the heat that bothered the 1,600 guests in the beer tent. Members of the Munich Greens city council group disrupted the speech by Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss with shouts of “switch off”, on the lake in front of the power plant demonstrators had placed a raft with a skeleton with a nuclear waste barrel and the banner: “I love Ohu.”
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