AKW-Zoff: Greens in the stress test?
Party doyen already suspects "organized campaign" for Söder
Created: 07/28/2022, 11:18 am
By: Franziska Schwarz
The Greens appear to be softening their nuclear power positions in the energy crisis.
For Jürgen Trittin, the instigators are clear: FDP and Union.
Munich - The word "drawing operation" is obviously a red rag for Jürgen Trittin.
For example, when the energy crisis in Germany involves the Isar 2 nuclear power plant in Lower Bavaria, one of the three nuclear reactors that are still active.
The Munich Greens want to let him run longer.
He advises that "this Bavarian problem is solved in Bavaria," the ex-Green Environment Minister told
Spiegel
.
But it's not as if the local Greens politicians are alone.
Trittin's party friend and Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckart was at least open to the ARD talk "Anne Will" for a stretching operation of Isar 2.
Robert Habeck, Minister of Economics, Vice Chancellor and figurehead of the Greens, is also willing to compromise in the face of a current "special scenario".
Then there is also pressure in the federal government: the FDP, partner in the traffic light coalition, as well as the Union plead with less pain for longer nuclear power plant runtimes.
But in the former anti-nuclear power party of the Greens, cracks are now also appearing in the term debate.
What does "stretch operation" mean?
The operators leave a nuclear power plant connected to the grid longer, but do without new fuel elements.
However, this is only possible if they accept reduced productivity: In this process, the reactor constantly loses 0.5 percent of its output per day.
Dispute over AKW runtimes: Habeck does the stress test
A wave of new findings could provide a remedy.
Habeck's ministry wants to determine a possible "special scenario" with a "stress test": check whether security of supply is guaranteed even under difficult conditions.
In spring the result was still positive.
The second is not expected until the next few weeks.
In the picture: Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock as well as the Isar II nuclear power plant (assembly) © Michael Kappeler/Armin Weigel/dpa/Montage: merkur.de
For Trittin, however, it is clear even before the result: even if a problem should arise in Bavaria, it will be possible to solve it without extending the nuclear power plant.
"I doubt everything else, just like all serious scientists," emphasized the Green politician.
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Trittin insists on a coalition agreement
When asked whether this opinion was a “green consensus”, Trittin insisted on the traffic light writing: “That is the decision of this coalition.
We are not only talking about changing the Atomic Energy Act, but also about changing the coalition agreement, which over 80 percent of the Greens have approved.”
Is there a split now?
The
FAZ
appeased in a comment and said that the fact that the Greens had tried in recent years to "appear as a party of pragmatism" spoke against it.
Trittin on the nuclear power plant debate: "Organized campaign for Söder's re-election"
In the AKW term debate, Trittin saw a "shot in the shoulder from the Union and the FDP".
Trittin believed that they would be annoyed by the currently high poll numbers for Habeck and Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, suspecting an “organized campaign” for the re-election of Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU).
And when it came to doing without, Trittin went back to Habeck in an interview in
Der Spiegel
and advised industry and households: "Ensuring that there is network stability there means saving".
With the high consumption in Bavaria, it's "easy".
In nine Bavarian cities, private power consumption is "up to a fifth above the national average," explained Trittin.
FDP leader Christian Lindner, on the other hand, previously held tips such as "taking a shorter shower" - now closely associated with Habeck - for "funny tips".
(frs)