Still online: the Isar 2 nuclear power plant (left) with the cooling tower
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The Bavarian Prime Minister once said that Fukushima would change everything. Now he wants to leave the running nuclear reactors connected to the network. Reports commissioned by the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment suggest that this is possible.
What is possible in politics if the will is strong enough was shown in 2011 by the decision to phase out nuclear power. At that time, at least internally, there were great doubts among experts as to whether it could be done in a legally secure manner – it turned out: rightly so. One person who ignored the doubts was the Bavarian Environment Minister from the CSU: Markus Söder. Fukushima changes everything, he said.
Now, as Bavarian Prime Minister, Söder once again sees the time to throw previous decisions overboard. This time it’s the war in Ukraine that changes everything from his point of view. He has therefore been demanding for weeks that the three nuclear power plants that are still connected to the grid in Germany, one of them, Isar 2, in Bavaria, should continue to operate. Objections, for example from Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who claimed that new fuel rods for continued operation could not be obtained in time, Söder said harshly: That was “nonsense”.
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