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Green faction leader: Nuclear power waste of funds
Katharina Dröge, parliamentary group leader of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, gives a statement before the Bundestag parliamentary group of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. photo
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Shortly before the planned end of the use of nuclear energy in Germany, Green Party leader Katharina Dröge criticized calls for nuclear power to be extended. “You wouldn’t get the nuclear power plants to continue running for free,” said Dröge on Friday in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”. The nuclear power plants in Germany are old and no longer reflect the latest state of the art. “Letting it continue wouldn’t work without massive additional security checks, and someone would have to pay for them.” The Union is hiding the fact that the taxpayer bears the costs, added the Greens politician.
Shortly before the planned end of the use of nuclear energy in Germany, Green Party leader Katharina Dröge criticized calls for nuclear power to be extended. “You wouldn’t get the nuclear power plants to continue running for free,” said Dröge on Friday in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”. The nuclear power plants in Germany are old and no longer reflect the latest state of the art. “Letting it continue wouldn’t work without massive additional security checks, and someone would have to pay for them.” The Union is hiding the fact that the taxpayer bears the costs, added the Greens politician.
Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) spoke out on Thursday in view of the energy crisis for a longer service life for nuclear power plants in Germany. He called switching off at this point a mistake and a sin.
According to Dröge, no company would operate nuclear power plants without massive government subsidies. Nuclear energy is an extremely expensive form of energy production. “We’ll end this waste of taxpayers’ money tomorrow. And at the same time, we’re creating price certainty for people.”
On Saturday, the three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany – Isar 2 in Bavaria, Emsland in Lower Saxony and Neckarwestheim 2 in Baden-Württemberg – will finally go offline. This was actually supposed to happen at the end of last year. Because of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the resulting energy crisis, the traffic light coalition decided after a word of power from Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) last year to let the three reactors continue to run over the winter.
