Shortly before the shutdown of the last German nuclear power plants, according to a survey, a majority is against the step. According to the representative survey by the opinion research institute Insa for the “Bild am Sonntag”, 52 percent of those questioned consider it wrong that the three remaining reactors will go offline next week. 37 percent think this is correct, 11 percent made no statement.
The last German nuclear power plants are to be finally shut down on April 15th. Actually, they should have been switched off at the end of last year. This was the schedule for the nuclear phase-out that the black and yellow federal government, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), decided after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Because of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and the resulting energy crisis, the traffic light coalition decided after a word of power from Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) last year to let the three reactors continue to run over the winter.
Merz sees the danger of a destabilized power grid
CDU leader Friedrich Merz was again critical of the upcoming shutdown. “You will hardly find anyone abroad who understands that Germany is shutting down three safe, CO2-free power generation plants in the biggest energy crisis in decades and is back to coal and gas,” he told the news portal “Web.de News”.
The danger of a destabilized power grid is still not banned, criticized Merz, who is also the leader of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag. According to the report, he attributed the fact that Germany got through the winter well to the mild temperatures and energy savings in industry and households. “The problem remains: We don’t have enough base load electricity in this country.”
The deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group, Matthias Miersch, said to “Web.de News”: “The specter of blackouts has been painted on the wall by nuclear fans before each nuclear reactor was shut down. There has never been an interruption in supply.”
