Both Die Felt And the picture Tonight it is announced that Germany is extending the life of the last three remaining nuclear power plants. All three were scheduled to close before the New Year, but now Prime Minister Olaf Schulz says they will continue to operate until April 15 at the latest.
“The legal basis for enabling the operation of the Isar 2, Neckarwestheim 2 and Emsland nuclear power plants will be established until April 15, 2023 at the latest,” Schultz wrote in a letter to leaders of other government parties.
Schulz also wrote that the government should introduce an “ambitious law to increase energy efficiency,” and that arrangements should be made to build “hydrogen-compatible gas power plants.”
government split
The question of closing or retaining the last three German nuclear power plants is also a hot spot internally in the government. While the Greens only want to keep two out of three power plants until April, government partner FDP wants to keep all three nuclear power plants until spring 2024.
Since there is legislation to phase out power plants at the end of the year, the extension requires a law change that the Bundestag must decide within this week. This puts great pressure on the ruling parties, which must agree through Wednesday, according to the report. Felt dies.
The decision to phase out nuclear power in Germany was made in 2011 in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. At that time, 17 nuclear reactors were in operation in Germany, now only three of them remain.
32 TWh of nuclear power shut down last year
Despite the decline in gas reserves, Germany closed the power plants in Grohnde, Brokdorf and Grundremmingen C shortly before the new year. The three power plants have a combined capacity of 4,000 MW and a combined annual production of more than 32 TWh per year.
In the past year, several well-known advocates of nuclear energy, including Bill Gates, sent letters to German party leaders asking them to reverse the shutdowns. They argue both security of supply, high electricity prices, and climate considerations.
The owner of the power plants in Neckarwestheim and Emsland said last year that the nuclear separation is closed, and that they will close the last two power plants in 2022. They then noted that staff planning, fuel procurement and maintenance have a planning time of several years, and that it is unreasonable to make such changes within a few months .
Holland and Sweden will build new
In the Netherlands, the four ruling parties agreed to extend the life of the country’s only nuclear power plant in Purcelli and start work on the construction of two new nuclear power plants.
In Sweden, too, the new tripartite government will facilitate more nuclear power. The government will commission Fatenval to begin planning and building new nuclear power plants. After the Chernobyl accident, opposition to nuclear power was also strong in Sweden, and it was previously decided to phase out nuclear power in Sweden.
Sweden currently has six nuclear reactors that account for about 30 percent of the country’s electricity production, according to Store norske leksikon.
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