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German poll: majority for return to nuclear energy
04 Apr 2025 13:02 GMT
… the most recently decommissioned nuclear reactors would be technically and … phase out nuclear energy back in 1998, but Angela Merkel… of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan, … Germany's last nuclear power plants were taken offline in …
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New leadership in Germany may tip the balance in Europe’s debate on nuclear power
10 Apr 2025 10:58 GMT
… Angela Merkel announced the closure of eight older nuclear reactors on … on dismantling these old nuclear reactors. This position has since … to further invest in atomic energy. Most countries in central … rethinking the role of atomic energy in Europe’s energy …
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Is giving old reactors new life the future of nuclear energy?
04 Mar 2025 03:49 GMT
… of bringing recently shuttered nuclear power stations back online. Around 217 … all of its 54 nuclear reactors following the Fukushima disaster … the nuclear power plant.
But Tokyo is now banking on nuclear energy to … pushing through with a Merkel-era promise to …
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CDU in Crisis: It Is More Than Just Poor Leadership
09 Apr 2025 15:06 GMT
… years. Like Merz now, Angela Merkel (CDU), once celebrated as Germany … ” whether the last three shuttered nuclear power plants could be reconnected to the … Association” (Kanzlerwahlverein), especially during the Merkel era, the marginalisation of internal …
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German election fact check: reactivating nuclear power plants
05 Feb 2025 15:43 GMT
… end of the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity in Germany … under the leadership of Angela Merkel's CDU/SPD …
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Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They?
07 Apr 2025 10:47 GMT
… the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began on the afternoon … absolutely improbable became reality,” Merkel, who had previously been … Electric proposed siting a nuclear reactor in Bodega Bay, a … reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in northern Ukraine, …
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It's time for Germany to admit its mistake on nuclear energy
26 Dec 2024 12:05 GMT
Angela Merkel’s freshly released autobiography … Germany’s frantic withdrawal from nuclear energy in favor of Russian gas … , but their completion of Merkel’s accelerated nuclear exit was … climate targets without nuclear power,” Merkel insists in her memoir. …
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We have nothing to fear from nuclear energy
17 Dec 2024 06:20 GMT
… accident led chancellor Angela Merkel to phase out nuclear … seemed to show how dangerous nuclear power plants could be. And now, … Point C, the first nuclear power station to be built in Britain … if plans to increase our nuclear-energy provision come off. The …
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FO° Exclusive: Germany’s Radical New Economic Policy
07 Apr 2025 16:46 GMT
… got into bed during Angela Merkel’s time. It’s not … . The Greens have already got nuclear energy out of Germany, for which …
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Baroness Gisela Stuart reviews Angela Merkel's 'Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021'
29 Jan 2025 13:24 GMT
… politicians from the West, where Merkel actually shows frustration or anger … , dependency on Russian energy, civil nuclear energy, German defence engagement and Israel … : Memoirs 1954 – 2021
By: Angela Merkel
Publisher: Macmillan
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