Scholz Rejects Calls for Revival of ‘Dead Horse’ Nuclear Power

09/02/2023 21:59
Scholz Rejects Calls for Revival of ‘Dead Horse’ Nuclear Power

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz brushed off the latest bid by his Free Democrat coalition partners to reverse the country’s exit from nuclear power, calling the technology a “dead horse.”

  • FDP coalition partners want technology to help secure supplies
  • Germany took its three remaining plants offline last April

The shuttered Neckarwestheim 2 nuclear power plant.

Photographer: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz brushed off the latest bid by his Free Democrat coalition partners to reverse the country’s exit from nuclear power, calling the technology a “dead horse.”

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