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“Winter 2023 will not be easier”: Malmendier economy calls for a longer nuclear power plant runtime

2023-01-02T09:52:45.115Z


“Winter 2023 will not be easier”: Malmendier economy calls for a longer nuclear power plant runtime Created: 01/02/2023 10:36 am By: Patricia Huber In just under four months, Germany's last nuclear reactors are to go offline. However, Ulrike Malmendier's economy calls for a longer term. Berlin – April 2023 is supposed to put an end to nuclear power in Germany. Then the last three nuclear react


“Winter 2023 will not be easier”: Malmendier economy calls for a longer nuclear power plant runtime

Created: 01/02/2023 10:36 am

By: Patricia Huber

In just under four months, Germany's last nuclear reactors are to go offline.

However, Ulrike Malmendier's economy calls for a longer term.

Berlin – April 2023 is supposed to put an end to nuclear power in Germany.

Then the last three nuclear reactors Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2 are to be taken off the grid.

In view of the energy crisis, however, this plan is often criticized.

Wirtschaftsweise warns: "Winter 2023/2024 will not necessarily be easier"

The economist Ulrike Malmendier has now spoken out in favor of staying longer on the network of the last three nuclear power plants operated in Germany.

"We now know that the winter of 2023/2024 will not necessarily be any easier," said the economist from the US University of Berkeley to the

Handelsblatt

.

"That's why it's important to exhaust all possibilities, and that's where nuclear power plants are part of it."

The decision must now be made quickly so that the operators can prepare and procure new fuel rods.

Malmendier also criticized the Federal Government's course on the nuclear issue for foreign policy reasons: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), with his late decision to shut down the Emsland, Neckarwestheim 2 and Isar 2 power plants later, but at the same time continue to obtain gas from Russia, "in the caused confusion in the United States."

In view of the energy crisis, economics Ulrike Malmendier calls for a longer nuclear power plant runtime.

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Since this summer, Malmendier has been a member of the Council of Economic Experts, which advises the federal government on economic issues.

According to the original plan, they no longer wanted to produce electricity from nuclear power from the beginning of 2023.

In view of the energy crisis, the running time of the three power plants was extended until April.

New fuel rods should not be bought for this.

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CDU continues to demand research into nuclear energy

Meanwhile, the Economic Council of the opposition CDU called for the question of shutting down the remaining power plants to be separated from research into new nuclear technologies.

"Although the time of classic boiling water and pressurized water reactors is running out, research is now presenting new operating principles and reactor types for which the previous pros and cons arguments no longer apply," says a position paper by the committee from which the

editorial network Germany (RND)

quoted on Monday.

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"With the decision to phase out the use of nuclear energy, Germany must by no means close the door on research for this future technology," said Economic Council Secretary General Wolfgang Steiger to the

RND

.

"On the contrary, research on reactor types of the fourth generation must be significantly intensified and more financially supported by the public sector."

(ph/AFP)

Source: merkur

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