BERLIN (AFP) - Germany Monday became the first great power industrialized to accept an end to nuclear energy following the disaster at the Japan, with a phase-out to be completed by 2022.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said the decision, hammered by its coalition of center-right from one day to the next day, marked the beginning of a "fundamental" consolidation of the energy policy in the economy of the world number four.
"We want the power of the future to be more secure and both reliable and affordable," Merkel told journalists that she accepted the findings of a commission of experts on nuclear power, that it has appointed in March in response to the crisis at the Fukushima plant to the Japan.
"This means that we must have a new approach for the network of supply, energy efficiency, also followed and renewable energies in the long term from the process," said Merkel, whose popularity has suffered in his previous position worldwide.
The commission considered that it would be viable in a decade in the Germany to suspend all 17 of its nuclear reactors, of which eight are currently off the coast of the electricity grid.
Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen announced the closure progressive early Monday after seven hours of negotiations at the offices of Merkel among partners in the ruling coalition. He said that the decision was "irreversible."
Seven reactors already are offline of the oldest country, whose Government has closed three months pending a probe of security after the urgency of Fukushima.
The eighth is the plant of United, in the North of the Germany, which has been offline for repeated years due to technical problems.
Six other reactors are shut down at the end of 2021 and more modern three would stop operating at 2022.
Decision Monday, which could meet the legal challenges of energy companies, means that Germany will find the 22 per cent of its electricity needs that have been covered by nuclear energy from other sources.
Roettgen insisted that no there was no danger of blackouts.
"Ensure us that the electricity supply will be ensured at all times and for all users", it is committed.
The Government must now determine how it can make the difference with the sources of renewable energy, natural gas and power plants to coal.
Merkel Steffen Seibert spokesman, said the plan would deliver four priorities: standing Germany: a world economy at the top of the page, an adequate and affordable energy supply, climate protection and independence of energy imports.
The decision is in fact a return to the schedule defined by a Green-Social Democrat coalition Government back ten years ago.
It is a lesson in humility u-turn for Merkel, who at the end of 2010, decided to extend the lifetime of the reactors by an average of 12 years, who have kept their open until the mid-1990s.
This decision was unpopular even before the earthquake and tsunami in March severely damaged the installation of Fukushima, creating antinuclear mass demonstrations in Germany.
Merkel zig-zaggant on what has been a very emotional issue in the country since the 1970s he cost in the last elections as the anti-nuclear Greens gained ground.
Nuclear opponents slammed the deal Monday and said they would stage fresh protests the month next call for a more rapid elimination.
During this time industrial giant Daimler warned that closure would undermine the competitiveness of the European economy the top of the page.
"Our backs on affordable energy supply is clearly a risk," Chief Executive Dieter Zetschke told the daily Bild, adding that he saw the decision as "strongly colored by emotions."
Fukushima accident sparked a new global debate on the safety of nuclear power plants, with opinions differ widely.
Minister of environment of Sweden criticized the decision of the Germany, saying it would lead to a disjointed energy policy which is not adequately fight against climate change.
The United States and Britain announced their intention to construct of harmful new reactors as an alternative to the production of greenhouse gas emissions while providing a relatively inexpensive supply of energy.
Italy demolished nuclear in 1987, a year after the Chernobyl disaster, while the Switzerland neighbour, said last week, and that it would gradually be atomic energy by 2034.
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