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Foreign Minister Baerbock: “I am not convinced that nuclear power plants will solve our gas problem”
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Should the three remaining German nuclear power plants run longer?
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock continues to reject this: "I'm not convinced that nuclear power plants will solve our gas problem," said the Green politician of the "Bild am Sonntag".
"The stress test is currently being carried out to determine whether we could still have a power problem in Bavaria because the grid expansion there was delayed."
Baerbock said those who were just talking about nuclear power aren't talking about the stretching operation.
“They want a roll back to nuclear power.
We have paid many billions for the back and forth in the nuclear phase-out over the past decade.
To upset that now would be madness and would cost us even more.”
Because of the energy crisis, which has worsened due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, there has been a debate for months as to whether the three remaining nuclear power plants should run longer.
The operating license for the Isar 2 reactor in Bavaria actually expires at the end of the year, as does that for the Emsland reactors in Lower Saxony and Neckarwestheim 2 in Baden-Württemberg.
The federal government is currently testing the security of the power supply in a stress test.
Then she wants to decide whether the nuclear power plants will run a little longer.
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) considers longer lifetimes for nuclear power plants to be possible.
The SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken had said, however, that the phase-out of nuclear energy would not be revised and justified this, among other things, with high costs and open questions about nuclear waste disposal.
In the Union, the nuclear phase-out was very controversial for many years before the debate recently flared up again.
The then federal government under Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) decided to gradually phase out nuclear power in 2011 after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.
Scheuer for the construction of new power plants
In the meantime, the former Minister of Transport, Andreas Scheuer, is not only demanding that the old reactors be extended in service life, he even wants new nuclear power plants to be built: »My formula is three plus three plus three: three nuclear power plants have to run longer, three have to be reactivated and three have to be built from scratch become, "said the CSU politician of the "world on Sunday".
"We need a reliable supply of energy to the economy, otherwise Germany's deindustrialization will continue." Germany has become a petitioner in the world and gets deliveries for new gas from Qatar, Canada and Norway.
Germany is stuck in the ideological trap of the Greens, said Scheuer.
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