Germany has begun winding down its three remaining nuclear power plants as part of a long-planned transition toward renewable energy.
Still, Bavaria's conservative governor, Markus Soeder, who backed the original deadline set in 2011 when Chancellor Angela Merkel was Germany's leader, this week called the shutdown “an absolute mistaken decision.”
Advocates of nuclear power worldwide have slammed the German shutdown, aware that the move by Europe’s biggest economy could deal a blow to a technology they tout as a clean and reliable alternative to fossil fuels. On Friday, dozens of scientists including James Hansen, a former NASA climate expert credited with, sent a letter to Scholz urging him to keep the nuclear plants running.
At a recent news conference in Berlin, Lemke noted that new nuclear plants in Europe, such as Hinkley Point C in Britain,. Funds used to maintain ageing reactors or build new ones would be better spent on installing cheap renewables, she said.
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