Will the anti-nuclear front yield? Determined to get out of the atom after the Fukushima disaster, Germany could, however, delay the closure of these last three reactors, which are supposed to be closed definitively at the end of the year.
In any case, this is the idea of the ruling coalition – including the Greens – when the country could face a difficult winter, due to the lack of Russian gas supplies. The decision will be made after a new stress test of the country on the energy issue.
The question mainly refers to the south of the country, and in particular to Bavaria, which does not have as many coal-fired power plants as the rest of the country to replace gas-fired power plants.
heated debate
Even so, the decision to expand the reactors (Emsland, Isar, Neckarwestheim) had already been the subject of a first debate in Germany last February. Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Robert Habeck, a member of the Green Party, then promised not to be “ideologically” opposed to the possible use of nuclear energy in the future.
But the debate had fizzled out, given the technical difficulties. “An extension of the deadlines could only make a very limited contribution to solving the problem, and this at very high economic costs, constitutional and security risks,” the German government said last March.
But since then, some scientists have claimed that an expansion of the reactors, to a power lower than its normal regime, was possible, although the limitations are numerous.
Source: BFM TV
