Germany to go Nuke-free by 2022

Germany has decided to be nuclear-free by 2022. The Christian Democratic Union party on Monday, agreed to shut down all of the nation's nuclear power plants by 2022. Minister of Ecology Norbert Roettgen of the Christian Democratic Union party said, "The decision looks like this, seven older nuclear power plants ... and the nuclear plant Kruemmel will not go back online ... a second group of six nuclear reactors will go offline at the end of 2021 at the latest, and ... the three most modern, newest nuclear plants will go offline in 2022 at the latest." To make up for the loss of nuclear energy, the German government will begin to switch to renewable energy and increase investments in energy research. They realize that they will not be able to do without conventional power plants, especially gas power plants for a long time. But they new research should hopefully make the energy transition more efficient and easier on the ecology.

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-Kristine Zizis