In Berlin, the Greens and the FDP are bickering over nuclear power. The Liberals want the nuclear power plants to run until 2024. In Stuttgart, the FDP goes one step further: the piles have to run as long as they are needed.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The FDP in Baden-Württemberg is calling for a significant extension of the operating times for the remaining three nuclear power plants in Germany. FDP parliamentary group leader Hans-Ulrich Rülke wants to present his proposals in the state parliament on Thursday (9.30 a.m.). The title of the debate requested by the FDP is: "With nuclear power through war and crisis."
Rülke said in the "Badisches Tagblatt" (Thursday) that new fuel rods would have to be bought for the piles and fully used. If that means that the nuclear power plants would then have to run until 2026, so be it. "And that makes sense in the current situation. The nuclear power plants have to run as long as it is necessary and as long as they are needed."
It's about the Isar 2, Neckarwestheim II and Emsland nuclear power plants, which were originally supposed to be the last to go offline at the end of the year. Because of the energy crisis, Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to keep the two southern German nuclear power plants operational until spring in the event of power supply bottlenecks. The federal FDP, on the other hand, is pushing for all three remaining nuclear power plants to continue operating until 2024.
