German officials regret French decision to keep aged nuclear plant running
Spiegel Online
German officials said they regretted state-controlled French energy supplier EDF’s decision to postpone its decision over the decommissioning of the 40-year-old Fessenheim nuclear plant until at least next year, Spiegel Online reports. Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, parliamentary state secretary in Germany’s environment ministry (BMUB), called EDF’s decision a “huge disappointment” and a “missed chance”. The Green Party’s nuclear energy expert Sylvia Kotting-Uhl said keeping the plant near the German border running was an “affront” that showed the nuclear lobby’s sway over the French government, the article says.
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For more information, see the CLEW dossier The challenges of Germany’s nuclear phase-out.
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