The German government is shutting down its last three nuclear power plants on Saturday as part of an energy transition. Germany long ago decided to phase out both fossil fuels and nuclear power over concerns neither is a sustainable source of energy.
FILE - Water vapor rises from the RWE nuclear power plant Emsland in Lingen, western Germany, March 18, 2022. Germany is shutting down this nuclear power plant and two others on Saturday, April, 2023, as part of an energy transition agreed by successive governments. FILE - Water vapor rises from the RWE nuclear power plant Emsland in Lingen, western Germany, March 18, 2022.
LINGEN, Germany — For 35 years, the Emsland nuclear power plant in northwestern Germany has reliably provided millions of homes with electricity and many with well-paid jobs in what was once an agricultural backwater. Now, it and the country’s two other remaining nuclear plants are being shut down. Germany long ago decided to phase out both fossil fuels and nuclear power over concerns that neither is a sustainable source of energy.
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