Saying the reactors were scheduled for decommissioning anyway isn’t the whole truth and is quite misleading. It was agreed in various private-public meetings and legislative sessions between 2000 and 2010 that the reactors would be decommissioned between 2020 and 2036. The most recent agreement confirming this was reached in 2010 by a Merkel lead government.
Not six months later Fukushima happened. Germany and Merkel (with an academic background in nuclear physics) had a panic attack, and all of a sudden the execution order was fast-tracked: date of death, 31.12.2022. Given the current energy situation a stay of execution was granted to the three remaining reactors until 15.04.2023.
Saying the reactors were scheduled for decommissioning anyway isn’t the whole truth and is quite misleading. It was agreed in various private-public meetings and legislative sessions between 2000 and 2010 that the reactors would be decommissioned between 2020 and 2036. The most recent agreement confirming this was reached in 2010 by a Merkel lead government.
Not six months later Fukushima happened. Germany and Merkel (with an academic background in nuclear physics) had a panic attack, and all of a sudden the execution order was fast-tracked: date of death, 31.12.2022. Given the current energy situation a stay of execution was granted to the three remaining reactors until 15.04.2023.