The remaining three nuclear power stations will go offline within hours. Some politicians have welcomed the shutdown while others warned that the intermittent nature of renewable energy will require more fossil fuels.
Hours before the shutdown of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power stations on Saturday, several leftist and center-left lawmakers and environmental activists applauded the move, while pro-business and conservative politicians warned that the risk to the country’s energy security remained.
The three reactors — Isar 2 in Bavaria, Emsland in Lower Saxony, and Neckarwestheim 2 in Baden-Württemberg — were expected to go offline by midnight after six decades of operation.
Their closure was delayed for several months by the energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February last year.
