The last three operating German nuclear power plants (NPS) – Isar-2, Neckarwestheim-2 and Emsland – have been disconnected from the grid. In this respect Wrote on the website of the ZDF TV channel with a link to a message from the station operator.
While it is possible to generate electricity on the eve of nuclear power plants. The last one was Neckarwestheim-2 station at 23:59 local time (0:59 Moscow time).
“We are working in accordance with the letter of the law and it would be absolutely criminal to continue operating the reactor here from 16 April,” said Gerrit Niehaus, head of the working group on nuclear power plant supervision in Germany. Ministry of Environment and Nuclear Safety.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to gradually shut down nuclear power plants in 2011 after the Fukushima-1 accident. The first commercial nuclear power plant was put into service on German soil in the Lower Franconia region in 1960.
Last week, the sociology institute INSA introduced According to data, more than half of the local population in Germany is against the final shutdown of the last three nuclear power plants in the country.