Water vapor rises from the cooling tower of the Isar 2 nuclear power plant Photo: dpa picture radio
From BZ/dpa
The federal government has not yet agreed on a draft by Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) to continue operating two nuclear power plants until spring.
Contrary to Habeck’s plans, the cabinet did not deal with it on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Economics said that the departmental coordination on the legal implementation of the “operational reserve” atomic is still ongoing.
The draft by the Ministry of Economics provides for the Atomic Energy Act and the Energy Industry Act to be supplemented with regulations that create the framework conditions for a “operational reserve” of the Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim 2 nuclear power plants limited in time until April 15, 2023. This should – if necessary – “controllable generation capacities be kept in the German power grid.
Habeck said a week ago that as of today, his ministry is assuming that the “reserve” will be drawn and that the Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim nuclear power plants will continue to be connected to the grid in the first quarter of 2023. Like the Emsland nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony, they should actually be taken off the grid at the end of the year.
