German cabinet agrees nuclear exit bill

THE German cabinet signed off yesterday on a bill phasing out nuclear power in Europe’s biggest economy by 2022, prompted by the disaster in March at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant.

German cabinet agrees nuclear exit bill

“I am convinced that the government’s decision today represents a milestone in the economic and social development of our country,” Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen told reporters in Berlin.

The pace of the switch-off is faster than that announced last week by Chancellor Angela Merkel, with the nine reactors currently on line due to be turned off between 2015 and 2022, according to the text of the bill.

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