The fate of the last three reactors connected to the network is not decided. Scholz hesitates.
On the left, Stephan Weil, 64, president of the Land of Lower Saxony. On the right, Bernd Althusmann, 56, its vice-president. On the eve of elections in this great German region, this Sunday, October 9, the two allies, respectively members of the SPD (Social Democrats) and the CDU (Christian Democrats), who have become adversaries, are torn over the fate of the Lingen nuclear power plant. It houses one of the last three atomic reactors in service in the country, which were destined to stop definitively at the end of this year.
Operation of the Lingen reactor, close to the Dutch border, is not “not necessary ” beyond December 31, believes Weil, supported by the Greens. An extension is “absolutely necessary”, retorts Althusmann, accusing the federal government of Social Democrat Olaf Scholz of betting on gas to the detriment of electricity.
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