Germany made a 180° turn by extending two reactors. The current crisis is blowing a favorable wind on the atom.
Berlin has turned around. On Monday, Germany announced that it would keep two nuclear power plants in operation until the spring of 2023, which are supposed to close by the end of December. A reversal that Chancellor Olaf Scholz defended by accusing the coalition led by Angela Merkel, of which he was vice-chancellor, of having decided to “Getting out of coal and nuclear without ever having had the strength to commit to anything”nor even “in renewable energy”. Admittedly, in Europe, nearly ten states have decided to reduce the share of nuclear power or close their power plants. Some, like Ireland, Austria or Norway, do not have a reactor and do not want one.
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But others, like Germany and Belgium, are temporarily extending their reactors or considering reversing their decision to phase out nuclear power, like Switzerland. And some display a proactive policy. This is the case of Great Britain and France, or that of Finland, underlines a…
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