The Red/Green "environmentalist" government legislated the nuclear phase-out. in 2002 before Merkel's time. She initially reversed it when she came to power, b

The Red/Green "environmentalist" government legislated the nuclear phase-out. in 2002 before Merkel's time. She initially reversed it when she came to power, but she had to reverse the reversal when German public opinion overwhelmingly rejected nuclear power due to the huge risk of tsunamis in Germany after 2011.