BERLIN - the Germany coalition Government agreed Monday to early to close nuclear plants by 2022, the country, said the Minister of the environment, making it the first major industrialized nation in the last quarter century to announce plans to go nuclear-free.
Older reactors seven of the country to the already off the grid pending safety inspections after the Central Fukushima disaster of nuclear Japan in March remain permanently offline, Norbert Roettgen added. The country a total 17 reactors.
Roettgen hailed the coalition agreement after negotiations through the night between the ruling parties.
"It's consistent." It is clear, he told journalists in Berlin. "This is why it is a good result."
Chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed through measures in 2010 to extend the life of the 17 reactors in the country, with the last scheduled to disconnect in 2036, but reversed its policy following the disaster of Japan.
"We want the future to be safe, reliable and economically viable electricity", Angela Merkel told journalists Monday.
The energy supply chain the Germany "need of a new architecture," requiring enormous efforts to stimulate renewable energy, gains efficiency and consolidation of the electricity grid, she added.
"We have to follow a new path," said Angela Merkel.
Germany, more great economy of Europe, is the only among the major industrialized countries of the world still using nuclear energy in its determination to be gradually replaced by renewable energy sources.
Italy decided to stop producing nuclear energy after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Through March - until seven reactors have been taken off line - just under a quarter of the electricity of the Germany was produced by nuclear energy, on the same share as in the United States.
Wind, solar and hydroelectric power currently produces about 17% of the electricity in the country, but the Government aims to increase its share to approximately 50 per cent in the coming decades.
Many Germans were fiercely opposed to nuclear energy since sent Chernobyl radioactive fallout on the country. Tens of thousands had on several occasions to the street in the wake of Fukushima to urge the Government to close all the reactors.
A centre-left government there ten years first wrote a plan to abandon the technology for good due to its inherent risks in 2021. But Government Merkel last year amended to extend the life of plants by an average of 12 years.
But the conservative Chancellor reversed its worldwide position after the earthquake and tsunami that paralyzed the plant of Fukushima Dai-ichi on 11 March, triggering a nuclear crisis.
Cabinet Merkel ordered seven older reactors of the country, all built before 1980, closing four days after the incident of Fukushima. Plants accounted for about 40 percent of the capacity of nuclear power plants in the country.
Germany used to be a net exporter of energy, and the Agency to oversee its electrical network said Friday that the country is self-sufficient even without the seven reactors and another plant that has already been disconnected for more than a year for maintenance work.
The decision of the coalition Government largely follows the findings of a commission of Government intervened on the ethics of nuclear energy, delivered its recommendation for the abolition of the technology by 2022 Saturday. Details of the final report must be submitted no later than Monday.
Close the reactors still more, however, require billions of euros of investment in the more central of natural gas, renewable energies and an overhaul of the country's electricity network.
Also, the Government of the neighbours in Switzerland, where nuclear energy produces 40 percent of electricity in the country, announced last week it intends to close its reactors gradually once they reach their life expectancy of 50 years - which would be the last plant off the coast of the grid in 2034.
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