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Other members of the Free Democratic Party have called for the nuclear power plants to be at least maintained as a precautionary measure in case they are needed in the future for power generation. [49] In April 2024, there was a controversy related to the decommissioning of nuclear power plants in Germany.
Nuclear power plant at Grafenrheinfeld, Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition announced on 30 May 2011, that Germany's 17 nuclear power stations will be shut down by 2022, in a policy reversal following Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. [38] Germany's power mix over time, tracing the decline of nuclear power.
Nuclear decommissioning is the administrative and technical process leading to the irreversible closure of a nuclear facility such as a nuclear power plant (NPP), a research reactor, an isotope production plant, a particle accelerator, or uranium mine. It refers to the administrative and technical actions taken to remove all or some of the ...
Will be used for Nuclear power in Germany and associated pages. There exists another free map: Image:Kernkraftwerke in Deutschland.png, which is, of course quite good, but is also in German and devoid of wikilinks.
Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power. Germany shuts down ...
Energy in Germany is obtained primarily from fossil fuels, accounting for 77.6% of total energy consumption in 2023, followed by renewables at 19.6%, and 0.7% nuclear power. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On 15 April 2023, the three remaining German nuclear reactors were taken offline, completing the country's nuclear phase-out plan. [ 3 ]
Some of these are to be shut down by 2022. It is decommissioning Isar 1 and Unterweser nuclear power plants. [2] It also holds (minority) stakes in the RWE-operated 1.3 GW Gundremmingen (25%) and 12% of the Emsland (1.3 GW) nuclear power plants. According to the assets swap deal between E.ON and RWE, RWE will acquire these minority stakes.
The anti-nuclear movement in Germany has a long history dating back to the early 1970s when large demonstrations prevented the construction of a nuclear plant at Wyhl. The Wyhl protests were an example of a local community challenging the nuclear industry through a strategy of direct action and civil disobedience.