Lawmakers from Germany’s largest opposition party alliance have called for an expert assessment of whether recently decommissioned nuclear power plants could be reactivated.

In an energy policy paper (German only), conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) politicians outline their energy policy priorities for the country’s future, ahead of the next federal election, scheduled for autumn 2025.

In the paper, they call the completion of Germany’s nuclear exit during the energy crisis “an ideologically motivated and wrong decision” by chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government coalition.