Three German political parties have called for a reversal of the country’s anti-nuclear policy with leading members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) alliance and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) saying they want to restart decommissioned reactors and build new ones, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.
The German government decided to shut down its civil nuclear industry after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan – a decision that critics warned would only lead to more fossil fuels being burned to generate electricity.
The last three of Germany’s 17 reactors stopped generating in April. Until March 2011 Germany generated one-quarter of its electricity from nuclear energy.
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