Parliament OKs Plan to Close Nuclear Plants
Parliament approved a plan to shut down Germany’s 19 nuclear power plants within 20 years.
The law was passed by the lower house with votes from the coalition government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats and the Greens. It does not need approval in the upper house.
The plants provide nearly a third of Germany’s electricity. The opposition Christian Democrats had argued that eliminating the plants would force Germany to use dirtier power sources. But eliminating nuclear power has been a pet cause of the Greens. The first plants will be closed in 2003 and the last in 2021.
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