German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's decision comes amid Europe's ongoing energy crisis
. Such fears boosted West Germany’s environmental movement and the newly formed Green party that is now part of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition.A center-left government of Social Democrats and Greens passed a law in 2002 that Germany would build no new nuclear power plants and shut down all existing reactors over the coming decades.
A conservative government under Angela Merkel announced in 2010 that Germany would extend the lifetime of its nuclear plants, in part to ensure sufficient supply of cheap, low-carbon energy. Once built, nuclear plants produce significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions than coal- or gas-fired facilities, while providing a constant amount of energy regardless of the weather that solar parks or wind farms can’t always guarantee.
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