German election fact check: reactivating • Table.Briefings

The nuclear phase-out in action: Demolition of the cooling towers at the Grafenrheinfeld NPP on August 16, 2024.

All political parties have presented proposals for changes to climate and energy policy in the run-up to the federal elections – some want to accelerate climate action, others want to scale back efforts. Table.Briefings examines these ideas to see how realistic, effective and feasible they are. Today: The renaissance of nuclear power.

The demand

The CDU/CSU, FDP and AfD disagree with the end of the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity in Germany – even though the German parliament unanimously decided to phase out nuclear power in 2011 under the leadership of Angela Merkel’s CDU/SPD government, including with the votes of the FDP. Therefore, they call for a nuclear renaissance in their election manifestos:

German election fact check: reactivating nuclear power plants

The demand

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