Saying Goodbye to Nuclear: Merkel Takes First Steps toward a Future of Renewables - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Der Spiegel | Apr. 15, 2011 (News)

When Angela Merkel declared a moratorium on nuclear energy after the recent disaster in Japan, critics accused her of playing politics. Now she appears to be serious. A national summit in Berlin has laid out a six-point plan to move Germany away from nuclear power. Full Story »

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 by Sirajul Islam - Apr. 15, 2011

Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, passed a law in 2002 to shutter nuke plants in Germany gradually, with the country to be nuclear free by 2022. But Merkel reversed this phase-out. Now, she is scrambling to reverse the reversal.

“I think we all want to move away from nuclear energy as quickly as possible and switch to renewables,” Angela Markel More »

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