Berlin-Sana
Germany has closed three nuclear power plants out of its remaining six to get rid of reliance on nuclear energy and seek to switch to renewable energy.
"The Bruckdorf and Grunde plants, as well as the Gonderimingen C plant, were closed and stopped generating power at midnight last night," Reuters quoted the Brussen Electra company as saying in a statement.
The three reactors were closed after three and a half decades of operation, while the remaining three reactors will be closed by the end of this year.
This action comes after the German government decided to speed up the phase-out of nuclear energy in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor accident in Japan, when an earthquake and tsunami destroyed the plant on the coast, in the world's worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
