Germany’s decision to keep two of its three remaining atomic plants on standby through the winter exposes division in the coalition
Economy Minister Robert Habeck stressed that Germany would not waver from its plan to move on from atomic energy.
But the decision has become a "stress test for the coalition" of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats, Habeck's Greens and the liberal FDP, according to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily. Habeck's decision, which he said was needed to avoid an "extremely unlikely" electricity crisis, partly delays the nuclear exit decided under former chancellor Angela Merkel after the Fukushima disaster in 2011.A 'necessary' decision
By contrast, Claudia Kemfert of the economic research institute DIW pointed out that "nuclear plants are not adapted to act as network reserves because they cannot be fired up and shut down easily".
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