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By Annika Breidthardt – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition declared on Monday it would shut all nuclear reactors by 2022, in a policy u-turn drawn up in a rush after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
The proposal may be even more ambitious than the nuclear exit planned when the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens were in power in 2000. It takes eight of 17 nuclear plants offline now and six by 2021.
But it could still face opposition from utilities. more> http://tinyurl.com/3vr4wxd
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