![]() ![]() Shutting down nuclear power plants could be a big setback for climate goals. So what does all this have to do with climate change? local time, Germany’s last nuclear power plant disconnected from the electricity grid. The shutdown was delayed from October 2022 because of concerns about energy security related to the war in Ukraine.German chancellor Angela Merkel pushed to speed up closures and finish the job by 2022. After some flip-flopping, things came to a head again in 2011 with the Fukushima accident in Japan.After lots of protests, the government made a plan to shut down all nuclear power plants. ![]() Questions about what to do with nuclear waste started to grow as well. ![]()
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