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It’s a knee jerk reaction to Fukushima. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-germanys-nuclear-phase-out https://www.cleanenergywire.org/fa

• cinntaile 5y ago
  It's not. These plans have been in motion since way before that, as your link probably confirms. Merkel was going to delay the closing, but when Fukushima came along she couldn't do that anymore.
  • rad_gruchalski 5y ago
    It is cemented by Fukushima. From wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany > Within days of the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, large anti-nuclear protests occurred in Germany. Protests continued and, on 29 May 2011, Merkel's government announced that it would close all of its nuclear power plants by 2022.[7][8] Political writer David Frum characterized Merkel's decision as a political move to improve her approval ratings which had sagged after the post 2008 financial crisis bailout of southern Europe by Germany. Regardless if things were in motion before, the decision to phase out was for a political gain. The rest of the story one can write themselves. It put the country on the course we have today. It will be very interesting to see how the greens trot around that.
    • cinntaile 5y ago
      Let me rephrase. They were supposed to close by 2022, Merkel delayed this by 12 years in 2010 but had to backpedal because of Fukushima. So the decision to close the plants was not a kneejerk reaction to Fukushima, it simply reverted back to the original decision.