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Lawmakers in the German Bundestag (parliament) have voted to keep Germany's three remaining NPPs in operation until April 2023. Under Germany’s nuclear phase-out plan they were all due to close by the end of 2022, but in October Chancellor Olaf Scholz ordered their extension in the face of energy shortages resulting from sanctions on Russian gas supplies. The three plants are Isar 2 in the southern state of Bavaria, Emsland in northwestern Germany, and Neckarwestheim 2 in the southwestern Baden-Württemberg state. The operators of the plants are E.ON (Isar 2), RWE (Emsland) and EnBW (Neckarwestheim 2), which, with a total capacity of 4.2GWe, currently account for 6% of Germany's power generation.

Date: Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgerman-parliament-approves-npp-life-extension-10355164

Three reactors could operate until mid-April Isar-2 is one of three nuclear plants whose operation will be extended until April. Courtesy PreussenElektra. Lawmakers in Germany’s lower house parliament have voted in favour of keeping Germany's three remaining commercial nuclear plants in operation until April.

Germany had planned to complete a phaseout of nuclear power by the end of 2022. But chancellor Olaf Scholz ordered the extension in October amid looming energy shortages in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Lawmakers in the Bundestag were voting on changing Germany’s Atomic Energy Law, which is the legal framework of the extension. The revisions clearly stipulate that there will be no new extension beyond April.

In the vote, 375 MPs voted in favour of amending the law, 216 voted against and 70 abstained, Bundestag vice-president Wolfgang Kubicki announced.

Date: Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/final-decision-on-nuclear-extensions-expected-in-weeks-as-bundestag-votes-in-favour-11-1-2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country's three remaining nuclear power stations to continue operating until mid-April. Scholz’s order ends weeks of dispute within his governing coalition. The head of the liberal Free Democratic Party coalition partner, Christian Lindner, was pressing to keep all three plants running until at least 2024, while the Green Party led by Economy Minister Robert Habeck insisted on closing them as scheduled at the end of 2022. The Greens wanted only two plants to be kept on standby, to be used if needed in face of the energy crisis sparked by European sanctions on Russian energy. The liberal Free Democratic Party, on the other hand, had been pushing to keep all three reactors active until 2024.

Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgermany-extends-nuclear-power-use-until-april-10102309

The German federal cabinet has approved an executive decision by Chancellor Olaf Scholz to allow the country's three remaining nuclear power plants to continue operating beyond the end of this year. It approved a draft amendment to the Atomic Energy Act which enables the Emsland, Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim 2 plants to operate until 15 April 2023 at the latest.

Date: Friday, 21 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/German-cabinet-approves-extended-reactor-operation

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has taken the decision to allow all three of Germany's remaining operating nuclear power plants to continue generating electricity until 15 April next year. His decision follows disagreement among the governing coalition parties over the continued operation of the plants.

Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Scholz-decides-on-continued-operation-of-reactors

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz - BMWK) has announced that it will extend the possible operation of two of its three remaining nuclear power plants until mid-April 2023 to provide an "emergency reserve" this winter in face of the current energy crisis resulting from sanctions on Russian oil and gas. The plants are scheduled for closure in December in line with Germany’s nuclear phase-out plan.

Date: Friday, 09 September 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstemporary-reprieve-for-two-german-npps-9988470

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that keeping the country's final three operating nuclear power reactors online beyond their planned shutdown at the end of this year may "make sense" in order to ensure electricity supplies.

Date: Friday, 05 August 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Scholz-says-keeping-reactors-online-can-make-sense

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