Germany to stick to decommissioning of nukes by 2021

Freiburg (Platts)--14Nov2005

Germany plans to stick to its plan to decommission nuclear power plants
by 2021, the so-called "grand coalition" partners, the SPD and CDU, said
Saturday. The atom consensus agreed between the previous SPD-Green party
government and industry plans for the last of the country's 17 reactors to
go offline by that date.
     Media observers in Germany said the issue was not over, however, and that
it was likely it would be taken up again during the government term. The
incoming coalition plans no major organizational changes to the departments'
steering energy policy, meaning it will be jointly designed by the economics
and environment ministries.
     Following an inconclusive national election in September, the coalition
between left-of-center SPD and conservative CDU/CSU is the first for 39 years
and the second ever in Germany's history.
     German environment group Bund slammed the energy plans of the grand
coalition, saying it "left out essential answers on environmental challenges."
Bund welcomed the government limiting climate warming to two degrees within
this century, but noted that concrete measures to reach that aim had not been
detailed.

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