Out for the comeback of nuclear power

Munich It’s still steaming from the cooling tower of the Isar 2 nuclear power plant in Essenbach near Landshut, but the cloud of fog should clear by the end of the year at the latest. Then Isar 2, like the other two German nuclear power plants Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2, will go offline and mark the end of nuclear energy in Germany. This is what the German Atomic Energy Act provides.

But with Russia’s attack on Ukraine and discussions about energy security, the exit date has recently been hotly debated again. In view of the climate goals, there have been increasing calls for several years to reconsider the end of nuclear power.

The fact that the federal government has now rejected a comeback for nuclear power is met with criticism.