If necessary, they should be used to generate electricity, the delegates decided late Friday evening in Bonn by a clear majority. The third remaining nuclear power plant in Emsland, on the other hand, will be shut down permanently on 1 January 2023.
The delegates rejected the purchase of new fuel assemblies. “Bündnis 90/Die Grünen does not agree with any legislation in the Bundestag that would procure new nuclear fuel elements or the required new enriched uranium,” the approved application said.
The hundreds of delegates reaffirmed the line that leading Greens such as the two party leaders Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour had taken in the dispute with the FDP in recent days. Shortly before the party congress, Lang had described the purchase of new fuel rods in an interview with “Spiegel” as a “red line”. A counter-movement, which had called for an end to all German nuclear power plants, failed.
A heated discussion has erupted in the traffic light coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP about how to deal with German nuclear power plants. While the FDP is pushing for a longer duration of action, the Greens in particular reject it. Habeck had proposed a nuclear power reserve, but recently made it clear that he believes that continued operation of the two southern German nuclear power plants will be necessary.
(SDA)